🛡️ CVE-2022-0993 — siteground-security

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-285 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
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Description

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 the 2FA back-up code implementation that logs users in upon success. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0993 is classified as CWE-285: Improper Authorization. A request is carried out without confirming that the caller is permitted to perform it on that specific resource.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0993 is recorded against 1 package.

  • siteground-security (fixed in 1.2.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 April 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-285
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-19
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
siteground-security — 1.2.5

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