CVE-2026-25471 PUBLISHED

WordPress Admin Safety Guard plugin <= 1.2.6 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

Assigner: Patchstack
Reserved: 02.02.2026 Published: 19.03.2026 Updated: 19.03.2026

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Themepaste Admin Safety Guard allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects Admin Safety Guard: from n/a through 1.2.6.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Themepaste
Product	Admin Safety Guard
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from n/a to 1.2.6 (incl.)

Credits

Robert Akhmerov (v31dt) | Patchstack Bug Bounty Program finder

References

https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/admin-safety-guard/vulnerability/wordpress-admin-safety-guard-plugin-1-2-2-broken-authentication-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Problem Types

CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-50 Password Recovery Exploitation