CVE-2025-9967 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 1.1.7 of the Orion SMS OTP Verification plugin for WordPress. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's password to a one-time password by exploiting improper identity validation, provided they know the target user's phone number. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, with a recommendation to disable the plugin until a patch is available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gsayed786 | Orion SMS OTP Verification. | >= 0, <= 1.1.7CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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