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Email Verification, Email OTP, Block Spam Email, Passwordless login, Hide Login, Magic Login – User Verification <= 2.0.44 — Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover

CVE-2025-12374Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.44Update to 2.0.45 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

User Verification by PickPlugins user-verification

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.44
  2. Patched in2.0.45

Update to 2.0.45 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.44. Version 2.0.45 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Verification by PickPlugins.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.0.45, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch User Verification by PickPlugins to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to lucky_buddy.

The Email Verification, Email OTP, Block Spam Email, Passwordless login, Hide Login, Magic Login – User Verification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.44. This is due to the plugin not properly validating that an OTP was generated before comparing it to user input in the "user_verification_form_wrap_process_otpLogin" function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user with a verified email address, such as an administrator, by submitting an empty OTP value.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in User Verification by PickPlugins

All 5
More vulnerabilities in User Verification by PickPlugins
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
<2.0.48Update to 2.0.48
CVE-2026-14861
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via OTP Verification REST API Endpoint
≤2.0.46Update to 2.0.47
CVE-2026-7458
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.0.45Update to 2.0.46
CVE-2026-32497
Critical9.8Privilege Escalation
≤1.0.93Update to 1.0.94
CVE-2022-4693

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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