CVE-2018-20231
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfa_enable_tfa parameter due to missing nonce validation.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the two-factor-authentication plugin before 1.3.13 for WordPress allows remote attackers to disable 2FA via the tfa_enable_tfa parameter due to missing nonce validation.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.44% probability · 73th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- simbahosting/two-factor-authentication
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor-authentication/#developersThird Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9187Third Party Advisory
- https://www.privacy-wise.com/two-factor-authentication-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-cve-2018-20231/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/two-factor-authentication/#developersThird Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9187Third Party Advisory
- https://www.privacy-wise.com/two-factor-authentication-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-cve-2018-20231/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.