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    CVE-2022-0993

    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.

    Published:Apr 19, 2022
    Last Modified:Apr 8, 2026
    EPS:Apr 19, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.03267
    CVSS Score:8.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Siteground
    Product
    Siteground Security

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-12 Choosing Message Identifier
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-166 Force the System to Reset Values
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-216 Communication Channel Manipulation
    CAPEC-36 Using Unpublished Interfaces or Functionality
    CAPEC-39 Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    CAPEC-402 Bypassing ATA Password Security
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-5 Blue Boxing
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    CAPEC-60 Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
    CAPEC-62 Cross Site Request Forgery
    CAPEC-647 Collect Data from Registries
    CAPEC-668 Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (KNOB)
    CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
    CAPEC-77 Manipulating User-Controlled Variables
    CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High