High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 21, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-0229

Description

The miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks when handling the reconfigureMethod, and does not validate the parameters passed to it properly. As a result, unauthenticated users could delete arbitrary options from the blog, making it unusable.

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Affected products

WordPress/Google Authenticatorinferred
Range: <5.5
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-authenticator
WordPress/miniOrange's Google Authenticatorllm-fuzzy
Range: <5.5

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/d70c5335-4c01-448d-85fc-f8e75b104351nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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