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CVE-2025-13587: Two Factor (2FA) Authentication via Email <= 1.9.8 - Two-Factor Authentication Bypass via token

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Two Factor (2FA) Authentication via Email plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This is because the SS88_2FAVE::wp_login() method only enforces the 2FA requirement if the 'token' HTTP GET parameter is undefined, which makes it possible to bypass two-factor authentication by supplying any value in the 'token' parameter during login, including an empty one.

Affected products

• ss88_uk Two Factor (2FA) Authentication via Email: through 1.9.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/two-factor-2fa-via-email/trunk/ss88-two-factor-via-email.php#L218
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3408531%40two-factor-2fa-via-email&new=3408531%40two-factor-2fa-via-email&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/11fbe76c-dc5c-413c-b6a8-d0f4aa56935d?source=cve

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