miniOrange's Google Authenticator <= 5.4.52 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-0229
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published February 28, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks when handling the reconfigureMethod, and does not validate the parameters passed to it properly. As a result, unauthenticated users could delete arbitrary options from the blog, making it unusable.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug miniorange-2-factor-authentication (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4.52
Patched Version
  • 5.5
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