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Orion SMS OTP Verification <= 1.1.7 — Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

CVE-2025-9967Published Oct 14, 2025 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: ≤1.1.7Update to 2.0.0 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-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Required access

No account needed

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

No score

CISA KEV

Not listed

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Am I affected?

Orion SMS OTP Verification. orion-sms-otp-verification

Affected≤ 1.1.7
Patched in2.0.0

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.1.7. Version 2.0.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Orion SMS OTP Verification..
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 2.0.0, or a newer patched version
Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
Watch Orion SMS OTP Verification. to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jonas Benjamin Friedli.

The Orion SMS OTP Verification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password to a one-time password if the attacker knows the user's phone number

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

Oct 14, 2025
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Nov 13, 2026
Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record

Vulnerability data: Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers: [object Object]. 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.

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