CVE-2025-12374

critical

Description

The Email Verification, Email OTP, Block Spam Email, Passwordless login, Hide Login, Magic Login – User Verification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.39. This is due to the plugin not properly validating that an OTP was generated before comparing it to user input in the "user_verification_form_wrap_process_otpLogin" function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user with a verified email address, such as an administrator, by submitting an empty OTP value.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8ccb1304-326e-43af-b75d-23874f92ba8b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-verification/trunk/templates/email-otp-login-form/hook.php#L141

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-05

Updated: 2025-12-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00186