CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-19125
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-09-24
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The EthPress – Web3 Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.5. This is due to the verify_login() function in app/Login.php containing a missing return statement in the signature verification failure branch — when Signature::verify2() reports a mismatch, the function only assigns a WP_Error to a local variable and continues executing, causing unconditional fall-through to the login block where Address::log_in() calls wp_set_auth_cookie() regardless of whether the submitted signature is valid. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any WordPress user who has a linked wallet address — including administrators — by submitting that user's public wallet address alongside an arbitrary well-formed signature, enabling full site takeover.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Address.php#L419 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Login.php#L46 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Login.php#L51 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Plugin.php#L75 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3683106/ethpress/trunk/app/Login.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/267acbd7-379c-4930-aa85-3071dfcac5a5?source=cve www.wordfence.com