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CVE-2025-9967: Orion SMS OTP Verification <= 1.1.7 - Authentication Bypass via Account Takeover

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: 2025-10-15 · updated 2026-09-26
• Weakness: CWE-288

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

Affected products

• gsayed786 Orion SMS OTP Verification.: through 1.1.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/orion-sms-otp-verification/trunk/vendor/js/reset-password.js
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/orion-sms-otp-verification/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b121fdb4-93a8-400c-89c2-3195cb40e03c?source=cve

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