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CVE-2023-4916: Login with phone number <= 1.5.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Password Change
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-352
Description
The Login with phone number plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.5.6. This is due to missing nonce validation on the 'lwp_update_password_action' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change user password via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected products
- Hamid Alinia Login with phone number: through 1.5.6
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/trunk/login-with-phonenumber.php?rev=2965324#L2942
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/trunk/login-with-phonenumber.php?rev=2967707#L2948
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71083db7-377b-47a1-ac8b-83d8974a2654?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/trunk/login-with-phonenumber.php?rev=2965324#L2942
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/trunk/login-with-phonenumber.php?rev=2967707#L2948
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/71083db7-377b-47a1-ac8b-83d8974a2654?source=cve
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