CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-0993
Critical (9.8) in siteground siteground security. EPSS 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The SiteGround Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass that allows unauthenticated users to log in as administrative users due to missing identity verification on the 2FA back-up code implementation that logs users in upon success. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.
Severity
- EPSS
- 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-285, CWE-306
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- siteground:siteground_security
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e3a5566-eee5-4f71-9c93-e59abf913d04?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/