CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-96228

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.48%

41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs

Summary

SSL Wireless SMS Notification for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to and including 3.8.1. The final_login_ajax_action handler resolves a user and issues an authenticated session by matching the wp_sslcare_otp table only on attacker-supplied phone and cap_data, without verifying the SMS OTP or any server-side single-use state.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker who knows a phone-linked user's number can take over that account. This leads to full account takeover and potential access to application data.

Recommendation

Update the plugin to a version newer than 3.8.1 if available, or disable SMS OTP login until the fix is applied. Implement additional server-side OTP verification.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

SSL Wireless SMS Notification for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1. The public final_login_ajax_action handler resolves a user and issues an authenticated session by matching the wp_sslcare_otp table on only the attacker-supplied phone and cap_data, without verifying the SMS OTP or any server-side single-use state. Because cap_data was chosen by the attacker in the public otp_login_ajax_action step (which stores the row before sending the SMS), the finalize step trivially matches and the user is looked up solely by the sslcare_login_phone meta. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers who know a phone-linked user's number to take over that account.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS