CVE-2025-13820 (GCVE-0-2025-13820)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-01 06:00
Modified
2026-01-01 06:00
Severity ?
Summary
The Comments WordPress plugin before 7.6.40 does not properly validate user's identity when using the disqus.com provider, allowing an attacker to log in to any user (when knowing their email address) when such user does not have an account on disqus.com yet.
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