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CVE-2025-9967:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Orion SMS OTP Verification plugin for WordPress contains a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-9967) discovered and disclosed on October 15, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.1.7, allowing privilege escalation through account takeover. The issue was identified by researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli (Wordfence).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from improper user identity validation during password update processes. The plugin fails to properly authenticate users before allowing password changes, classified as CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel). The severity is rated as Critical with a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to change any user's password to a one-time password, provided they know the target's phone number. This can lead to complete account takeover and unauthorized access to privileged functions within WordPress installations using the affected plugin (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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