Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP – Passwordless Login by VentraConnect <= 1.4.3 — Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Spotify OAuth Callback
CVE-2026-18961Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.4.3Update to 1.4.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.1
- CVSS
- 8.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
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?
Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP – Passwordless Login by VentraConnect ventraconnect-social-login
- Affected≤ 1.4.3
- Patched in1.4.4
Update to 1.4.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.4.3. Version 1.4.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP – Passwordless Login by VentraConnect.
- 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 1.4.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP – Passwordless Login by VentraConnect to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Civitasmass.
The Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP – Passwordless Login by VentraConnect plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via Unverified Provider Email in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.3. This is due to the plugin trusting the unverified email field returned by Spotify's /v1/me endpoint as proof of mailbox ownership — Generic::normalize_common() copies this value into the normalized profile without requiring an email_verified assertion, and User_Links::link_or_login_user() subsequently passes it directly to get_user_by('email', $email) and issues a persistent authentication cookie via wp_set_auth_cookie() without a provider-specific verified-email gate, a local mailbox challenge, or a logged-in approval step. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing WordPress user, including Administrators, by supplying a known target email address through a controlled Spotify OAuth flow, gaining full administrative access to the site.
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
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All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Account Takeover via OTP Brute Force <1.4.1Update to 1.4.1 | CVE-2026-13142 |
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Account Takeover via OTP Brute Force
<1.4.1Update to 1.4.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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