# CVE-2024-6482: Login with phone number <= 1.7.49 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authorization Bypass to Privilege Escalation

> Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to Administrator due to missing capability checks in the Login with phone number plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gx7g-q2xr-xm5f

## What is CVE-2024-6482?

CVE-2024-6482 is a high-severity vulnerability in glboy OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification, published on 14 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Login with phone number plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.49. This is due to a lack of validation and missing capability check on user-supplied data in the 'lwp_update_password_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to any other role, including Administrator. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 1.7.40. The login with phone number pro plugin was required to exploit the vulnerability in versions 1.7.40 - 1.7.49.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6482?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Idehweb Login With Phone Number.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in glboy OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification

- [CVE-2023-4916](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4916/): Login with phone number <= 1.5.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to User Password Change (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-23492](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23492/): SQL injection in Login with Phone Number WordPress Plugin (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-0593](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0593/): Login with phone number < 1.3.7 - Unauthenticated remote plugin deletion (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-37429](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37429/): WordPress Login with phone number plugin <= 1.7.35 - Admin+ Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2022-0598](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0598/): Login with phone number < 1.3.8 - Multiple Admin+ Stored XSS (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6482 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6482 is a high-severity vulnerability in glboy OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification, published on 14 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: glboy OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6482/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6482/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6482
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6482
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6482

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6482/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.