The OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification plugin for WordPress 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.
CVE-2026-3655
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-05-29. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 38.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 29, 2026
Last Modified
May 29, 2026
References (6)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/tags/1.8.60/inc/ajax-handlers.php#L1167
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/tags/1.8.60/inc/ajax-handlers.php#L649
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/tags/1.8.60/inc/ajax-handlers.php#L659
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/login-with-phone-number/trunk/inc/ajax-handlers.php#L649
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3479314/login-with-phone-number/trunk/inc/ajax-handlers.php?old=3455810&old_path=login-with-phone-number%2Ftrunk%2Finc%2Fajax-handlers.php
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7fc410f2-5f2b-4eea-a0fb-fe58f988f95f?source=cve
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