SiteGround Security <= 1.2.5 - Authorization Weakness to Authentication Bypass

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-0993
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published April 7, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sg-security (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.5
Patched Version
  • 1.2.6
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