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Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision

CVE-2024-9820

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The WP 2FA with Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to the two-factor code being stored in a cookie, which makes it possible to bypass two-factor authentication.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-784 - Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision

The application uses a protection mechanism that relies on the existence or values of a cookie, but it does not properly ensure that the cookie is valid for the associated user.

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  • Published