Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter <= 3.0.7 - Authentication Bypass via WordPress.com OAuth provider

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2024-9501
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 25, 2024
Last Updated February 19, 2025
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7. This is due to insufficient verification on the user being returned by the social login token. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the email and the user does not have an already-existing account for the service returning the token.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-social (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.7
Patched Version
  • 3.0.8
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