As a result, we recommended deprecating these comparison operators and upgrading to a version that uses the strongest mitigation available.
Between the time the WP 2FA team received the information about a potential security vulnerability and the time we made the public announcement, a new version of the WP 2FA plugin was released. As a result, the team no longer recommends deprecating comparison operators, as the new version has inherited the comparison operator from the old version. Therefore, we are now making the public announcement about the deprecation of comparison operators as of version 2.3.0.
When upgrading to the WP 2FA 2.3.0 or later version, please be aware that this version inherits the comparison operator from the old version. Therefore, the team no longer recommends deprecating comparison operators, as the new version has inherited the comparison operator from the old version. Furthermore, we are aware of the fact that one of the comparison operators has not been used in a long time, so we consider it safe to deprecate it.
Version 2.3.0 Deprecation Notices
As a result, we recommended deprecating these comparison operators and upgrading to a version that uses the strongest mitigation available.
Between the time the WP 2FA team received the information about a potential security vulnerability and the time we made the public announcement, a new version of the WP 2FA plugin was released. As a result, the team no longer recommends deprecating comparison operators, as the new version has inherited the comparison operator from the old version. Therefore, we are now making the public announcement about the deprecation of comparison operators as of version 2.3.0.
What’s the new version?
The new version is called WP 2FA 2.3.0 and was released on June 28th, 2018.
Security update :
WordPress and WordPress 2FA team have patched a security vulnerability of the WP 2FA plugin that allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) by hijacking the WordPress database.
As a result, we recommended deprecating these comparison operators and upgrading to a version that uses the strongest mitigation available. There are about 40 vulnerabilities reported for this plugin in total, with all other versions of this plugin not affected. For more information about the security update, please visit our blog post on this topic: https://wp-themes.com/security-update/
WP 2FA Comparison Operators
WP 2FA, a WordPress plugin for two-factor authentication, has a security vulnerability. The WP 2FA team recommends deprecating these comparison operators and upgrading to a version that uses the strongest mitigation available.
The WP 2FA team received information about the potential security vulnerability and began working on it as soon as possible. However, before we made the public announcement about this security vulnerability, the new version of WP 2FA was released. As a result, we no longer recommend deprecating comparison operators due to this new version inheriting the comparison operator from the old version. Furthermore, one of the comparison operators has not been used in a long time, so we consider it safe to deprecate it.
When upgrading to the WP 2FA 2.3.0 or later versions, please be aware that this version inherits the comparison operator from the old versions. Therefore, we now no longer recommend deprecating comparison operators due to this new version having inherited them from the old version and one of the comparison operators not being used in a long time. Finally, please note that there is an update for this vulnerability for both WordPress 3 and 4 users; however only those using WordPress 3 will need to upgrade their plugins as those using WordPress 4 already have upgraded by default.
Timeline
Published on: 10/10/2022 21:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 10/11/2022 17:19:00 UTC