Authentication bypass in Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
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 Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress through 3.2.2 is affected by an authentication bypass (CWE-287). The social login callback locates an existing WordPress account only by the email address returned from the OAuth provider and logs in that user without a password check, and the email verification guard does not work for the bundled Facebook and Twitter adapters. An unauthenticated attacker who controls an OAuth account with a matching email address can obtain an authenticated session as any existing user, including Administrators.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Description from the CNA
The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.2. This is due to the social login REST callback registered at `/wp-json/wslu-social-login/type/{provider}/` with `permission_callback => __return_true` locating an existing WordPress account solely by the email string returned from the OAuth provider and calling `wp_set_auth_cookie()` without a password check, while the only verification guard — `!empty($getProfile->emailVerified)` in `inc/admin-create-user.php` — is a no-op for the bundled Hybridauth Facebook and Twitter adapters, both of which assign the raw email string rather than a boolean verified flag to `emailVerified`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain a fully authenticated session as any existing WordPress user, including Administrators, whose registered email address can be presented through a configured Facebook or Twitter login on the target site. Exploitation requires only that the attacker control an OAuth account whose provider-returned email matches the target account's registered WordPress email address; no local credentials, nonce, or prior foothold is needed.
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
The sources list no fixed version for Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Timeline
- 2026-10-31 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-103898
- 2026-10-31 Alias added: GHSA-g8pp-vmv3-x6hw
- 2026-11-01 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e961d3db-da5e-4bde-ae7e-04e6ba3ebef4?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/inc/admin-create-user.php#L229
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/inc/admin-create-user.php#L512
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/inc/admin-create-user.php#L172
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/inc/admin-rest-api.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/lib/composer/vendor/hybridauth/hybridauth/src/Provider/Facebook.php#L205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/lib/composer/vendor/hybridauth/hybridauth/src/Provider/Twitter.php#L102
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3752566%40wp-social&new=3752566%40wp-social
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Sources
- CVE-2026-103898 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-103898 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g8pp-vmv3-x6hw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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