CVE-2025-12374: Pickplugins User Verification By Pickplugins

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Email Verification, Email OTP, Block Spam Email, Passwordless login, Hide Login, Magic Login – User Verification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.44. This is due to the plugin not properly validating that an OTP was generated before comparing it to user input in the "user_verification_form_wrap_process_otpLogin" function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user with a verified email address, such as an administrator, by submitting an empty OTP value.

Affected products

• Pickplugins User Verification By Pickplugins: up to and including 2.0.44

Published 2025-12-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.