This archive contains the list of all security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins that we (responsibly) disclosed.
Most of the vulnerabilities have been validated by:
- GridPane
- The InfoSec team of one of the largest enterprise WordPress hosts.
- A fellow white-hat hacker with 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 and government agencies.
- Thomas Raef, CEO at wewatchyourwebsite.com
There are three reasons a vulnerability might be listed here:
- The vendor has already fixed the vulnerability.
- The vendor did not indicate any progress toward a resolution
- The vendor stated that they did not consider our findings to be a
security issue.
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Potential patches were last evaluated on September 21, 2022.
If an issue has been fixed let us know through the comment form on the respective disclosure page.
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2FA bypass by deleting a hidden input field – (WP 2FA <= 2.2.0)
The entire two-factor authentication can be bypassed by deleting a hidden input field in the 2FA form.
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Time-Based-Side-Channel-Attack on backup codes – Two Factor Authentication (Updraft) <= 1.14.5
The plugin uses string comparison operators that don’t mitigate time-based-side-channel-attacks, which could be abused to reverse engeneer information about a user’s emegerncy backup cods.
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Broken encryption allows 2FA bypass – Two Factor Authentication (Updraft) <= 1.14.5
The Two Factor Authentication plugin by Updraft employs a broken encryption scheme that allows an attacker to permanently bypass all 2FA checks.
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Broken Authentication (15) Injection (4) Insufficient Cryptography (16) IP spoofing (24) Sensitive Data Exposure (16)