EthPress <= 2.3.5 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-287.
Summary
The EthPress – Web3 Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.5. This is due to the verify_login() function in app/Login.php containing a missing return statement in the signature verification failure branch — when Signature::verify2() reports a mismatch, the function only assigns a WP_Error to a local variable and continues executing, causing unconditional fall-through to the login block where Address::log_in() calls wp_set_auth_cookie() regardless of whether the submitted signature is valid. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any WordPress user who has a linked wallet address — including administrators — by submitting that user's public wallet address alongside an arbitrary well-formed signature, enabling full site takeover.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-19125
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j4cg-29jc-q96r
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/267acbd7-379c-4930-aa85-3071dfcac5a5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Login.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Login.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Plugin.php#L75
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ethpress/tags/2.3.5/app/Address.php#L419
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3683106/ethpress/trunk/app/Login.php
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- TI-2022-04562 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-19125 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-19125 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j4cg-29jc-q96r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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