Overview
The cybersecurity community is facing yet another significant threat in the form of a vulnerability in the LoginPress Pro Plugin for WordPress, known as CVE-2025-7444. This vulnerability affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 5.0.1, making it a significant risk to a large portion of the WordPress user base.
The severity of this issue cannot be overstated as it allows for authentication bypass, potentially granting malicious attackers administrative access. Given WordPress’s popularity and wide usage, the implications of this vulnerability are far-reaching, posing a significant risk to numerous websites, potentially compromising systems and leading to data leakage.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-7444
Severity: Critical (9.8 CVSS Score)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Impact: System compromise, data leakage
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Product | Affected Versions
LoginPress Pro Plugin for WordPress | Up to, and including, 5.0.1
How the Exploit Works
The exploit takes advantage of an issue in the authentication process of the LoginPress Pro plugin. The plugin fails to sufficiently verify the user returned by the social login token. As a result, if an attacker has access to a user’s email and the user does not have an existing account for the service returning the token, the attacker can bypass authentication and log in as that user. This exploit could potentially allow an unauthenticated attacker to log in as any existing user on the site, including administrators.
Conceptual Example Code
Below is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This is a sample HTTP request, where an attacker uses a crafted token to bypass the authentication.
POST /wp-login.php?action=login HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
Content-Type: application/json
{
"email": "admin@example.com",
"token": "malicious_crafted_token"
}In this example, the attacker uses the administrator’s email and a maliciously crafted token to bypass the authentication process and gain unauthorized access.
Mitigation
Users of the affected LoginPress Pro plugin for WordPress are urged to apply the vendor patch as soon as possible. As a temporary mitigation, implementing Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) can help prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. However, these are merely temporary solutions and the vendor patch should be applied to fully secure the system.