CVE-2022-0229: Miniorange Google Authenticator

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The miniOrange's Google Authenticator WordPress plugin before 5.5 does not have proper authorisation and CSRF checks when handling the reconfigureMethod, and does not validate the parameters passed to it properly. As a result, unauthenticated users could delete arbitrary options from the blog, making it unusable.

Affected products

• Miniorange Google Authenticator: before 5.5 (fixed in 5.5)

Published 2022-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.