CVE-2025-9967

critical

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

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b121fdb4-93a8-400c-89c2-3195cb40e03c?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/orion-sms-otp-verification/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/orion-sms-otp-verification/trunk/vendor/js/reset-password.js

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-15

Updated: 2026-04-15

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: 0.00055