WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress <= 2.9.3 - 2-Factor Authentication Bypass

Protection Mechanism Failure
CVE CVE-2025-12628
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 3, 2025
Last Updated December 1, 2025
Researcher Benjamin Nadarević
Description

The WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to 2FA bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass 2FA protection. Please note Wordfence does not consider this a security vulnerability and previously rejected assigning a CVE ID to this issue. This is being included for informational purposes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-2fa (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.3
Patched Version
  • 3.0.0
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