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CVE-2022-0993: SiteGround Security <= 1.2.5 - Authorization Weakness to Authentication Bypass

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The SiteGround Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass that allows unauthenticated users to log in as administrative users due to missing identity verification on the 2FA back-up code implementation that logs users in upon success. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.

Affected products

• SiteGround Security: through 1.2.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e3a5566-eee5-4f71-9c93-e59abf913d04?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8e3a5566-eee5-4f71-9c93-e59abf913d04?source=cve

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