Attackers Target miniOrange SAML Flaws That Can Grant WordPress Admin Access
Bad actors are attempting to exploit two severe unauthenticated authentication bypasses in the Xecurify miniOrange SAML 2.0 Single Sign On plugin that make it possible for an attacker to sign in as any WordPress user, including administrators. The vulnerabilities, as disclosed by Patchstack , are listed below - CVE-2026-61979 (CVSS score: 8.1) - An unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability stemming from signature algorithm confusion (Fixed in version 17.0.5 for the Standard edition) CVE-2026-15981 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass vulnerability stemming from accepting malformed signatures as valid (Fixed in version 17.0.6 for the Standard edition) "This is due to the mo_saml_validate_signature() function performing a loose boolean check on the raw tri-state integer returned by PHP's openssl_verify(), causing an error return value of -1 to be evaluated as truthy and therefore treated as a successful signature verification," according to a...
Aug 25, 2026