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

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2025-9967
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 14, 2025
Last Updated February 6, 2026
Researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli
Description

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

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug orion-sms-otp-verification (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.7
Patched Version
  • 2.0.0
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