CVE-2022-0992 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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 initial 2FA set-up that allows unauthenticated and unauthorized users to configure 2FA for pending accounts. Upon successful configuration, the attacker is logged in as that user without access to a username/password pair which is the expected first form of authentication. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.04367.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Siteground	Security Optimizer

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:siteground:security_optimizer:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
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/6e5c6bf7-a653-4571-9566-574d2bb35c4f?source=cve

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2022-04-19T20:26:33.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T16:43:36.718Z

Reserved: 2022-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-0992

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T23:47:42.986Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-04-19T21:15:13.623

Modified: 2025-05-05T17:17:33.117

Link: CVE-2022-0992

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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