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CVE-2025-9967

Status: DeferredCritical (9.8)—

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

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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🎯 ATT&CK techniques

How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

CWE-288 (autenticación inadecuada) en plugin WordPress accesible sin autenticación (AV:N/PR:N/UI:N) permite cambiar contraseñas sin validar identidad; impacta en acceso de cuenta (T1078) y manipulación de credenciales (T1098.002).

Inferred by our analysis agent from the official description, CVSS vector and CWE, and checked by a supervisor. May contain errors.

🛡️ ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques

Privileged Account ManagementMulti-factor AuthenticationApplication Developer GuidanceActive Directory ConfigurationVulnerability ScanningUser Training

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Orion SMS OTP Verification — Orion SMS OTP VerificationAI

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