RingCentral Communications 1.5 — 1.6.8 - Missing Server‑Side Verification to Authentication Bypass via ringcentral_admin_login_2fa_verify Function
CVE-2025-7955Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: 1.5 – 1.6.8Update to 1.7.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
RingCentral Communications Plugin – FREE rccp-free
- Affected1.5 – 1.6.8
- Patched in1.7.0
Update to 1.7.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run 1.5 – 1.6.8. Version 1.7.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under RingCentral Communications Plugin – FREE.
- 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
- Update to version 1.7.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch RingCentral Communications Plugin – FREE to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to kr0d.
The RingCentral Communications plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass due to improper validation within the ringcentral_admin_login_2fa_verify() function in versions 1.5 to 1.6.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user simply by supplying identical bogus codes.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in RingCentral Communications Plugin – FREE
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.4 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.6.1No patch available | CVE-2024-53770 |
- Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.6.1No patch available
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
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.