WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification < 1.8.61 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Firebase OTP Verification

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions 1.8.50 through 1.8.60. This is due to the Firebase verification flow in the `lwp_ajax_register` AJAX handler not binding the Firebase session to the phone number supplied in the request. The `idehweb_lwp_activate_through_firebase()` function validates that a Firebase OTP session is legitimate, but the `phoneNumber` returned by Firebase is never compared against the victim's stored phone number. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to authenticate as any user who has a phone number stored in user meta, including administrators, by verifying their own Firebase session and supplying the victim's phone number in the same request.

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Original Researcher
lucky_buddy
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-28 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-05-28 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-29 (about 1 month ago)

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