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CVE-2026-8760

The Login with OTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-11178: the rate-limit/lockout check added to `otpl_login_action()` was placed only inside the OTP-generation branch and is never evaluated on the OTP-validation branch, and the generated 6-digit OTP additionally has no expiration. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to brute-force the 900,000-value OTP space for a
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:5809293a68d0b9a1178ccb84d6c884bd83d159504f275a1757f7b3a32352f0e8
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Login with OTP","vendor":"india-web-developer","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"<= 1.6"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"baseScore":9.8,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-307","description":"CWE-307 Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

10 source assertions
{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11178"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/9
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/tags/1.6/lib/otpl-class.php#L361"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/tags/1.6/lib/otpl-class.php#L419"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/tags/1.6/lib/otpl-class.php#L424"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/tags/1.6/lib/otpl-class.php#L427"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/trunk/lib/otpl-class.php#L361"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/8
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/trunk/lib/otpl-class.php#L419"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/trunk/lib/otpl-class.php#L424"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/otp-login/trunk/lib/otpl-class.php#L427"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/6
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad22cb24-e6a0-456f-afe8-88a39acd97d3?source=cve"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:07c7d45e490801134378ea78c9c686d366bf67c50e46085dfac4b602b176fc97 · sha256:daf241a4d98fca41… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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