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CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Base Incomplete

The product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Architecture and Design

    Funnel all access through a single choke point to simplify how users can access a resource. For every access, perform a check to determine if the user has permissions to access the resource.

Source: MITRE CWE-288

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  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress Piraeus Bank WooCommerce Payment Gateway plugin 3.2.0 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Piraeus Bank WooCommerce Payment Gateway 3.2.0 versions.

  • High 7.1

    WordPress MWB HubSpot for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.6.7 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Subscriber Broken Authentication in MWB HubSpot for WooCommerce <= 1.6.7 versions.

  • Critical 9.1

    WordPress Popup by Supsystic plugin <= 1.13.0 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Popup by Supsystic <= 1.13.0 versions.

  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress Contact Form by Supsystic plugin < 1.10.0 - Bypass Vulnerability vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Bypass Vulnerability in Contact Form by Supsystic < 1.10.0 versions.

  • High 7.5

    WordPress Ezoic plugin <= 2.22.11 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Ezoic <= 2.22.11 versions.

  • Critical 9.8

    Bastillion Authentication Bypass via Path-Prefix Routing Mismatch

    Bastillion fails to properly validate request URI paths in its controller dispatcher, allowing unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication filters by prefixing requests with arbitrary path segments. Attackers can access administrative controllers to re…

  • Medium 5.3
    CVE-2021-43718 Public exploit

    An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in EPSON EH-TW5350 EPSON 150075647YWWV110, which could let a remote malic…

  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2026-75045 Public exploit

    In JetBrains YouTrack before 2025.3.156085, 2026.1.13913, 2026.2.18112 an unauthenticated attacker could download datab…

  • Critical 9.8

    WordPress Cartify theme <= 1.3.0.1 - Account Takeover vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Cartify <= 1.3.0.1 versions.

  • Critical 9.8

    WordPress Salon booking system plugin <= 10.30.26 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Salon booking system <= 10.30.26 versions.

  • High 7.3

    A authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability in Fortinet FortiManager 7.6.1, FortiManager 7…

  • Medium 6.8

    Velociraptor VFSGetBuffer API path deny list bypass

    The Velociraptor gRPC API has a VFSGetBuffer endpoint which allows reading files from the datastore. To prevent users from reading sensitive files or accessing other orgs, the requested path is prefix checked against a list of denied prefixes. This prefix che…

  • High 7.5

    OpenSignLabs opensignserver - Authentication Bypass

    An authentication bypass vulnerability in OpenSignLabs opensignserver through 2.37.0 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to mint MASTER_KEY-signed file access tokens for arbitrary stored files via the getsignedurl Parse cloud function. The function skip…

  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress WP Event SOlution plugin <= 4.1.9 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in WP Event SOlution <= 4.1.9 versions.

  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress Gutena Forms – Contact Form, Survey Form, Feedback Form, Booking Form, and Custom Form Builder plugin <= 1.9.0 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Gutena Forms – Contact Form, Survey Form, Feedback Form, Booking Form, and Custom Form Builder <= 1.9.0 versions.

  • High 8.8

    WordPress Super Socializer plugin <= 7.14.5 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Super Socializer <= 7.14.5 versions.

  • Critical 9.8

    NVIDIA Dynamo for Linux contains a vulnerability in the multimodal serving topology, where an attacker could cause an o…

  • Critical 9.5
    CVE-2026-58073 Public exploit

    A vulnerability in Veeam Service Provider Console allowing an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate a managed agent a…

  • High 8.6

    SiYuan before v3.7.3 Authentication Bypass via Content Endpoints

    SiYuan versions before v3.7.3 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in publish mode where content-returning endpoints getHeadingChildrenDOM, getHeading*Transaction, and getBacklinkDoc perform no password check despite protecting the primary getDoc en…

  • Critical 9.3
    CVE-2026-18574 Public exploit

    Authentication Bypass in Check Point Security Management Server

    An authentication bypass vulnerability in Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker with network access to Management services to execute arbitrary commands on the S…

  • Critical 10.0

    Authentication bypass on WaptServer

    A vulnerability in Wapt Server before version 2.6.1.17813 allows a  remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restriction using a specially crafted packet and retrieve a valid session token for the targeted account.

  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-18577 Exploited Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 15%

    Incomplete patch leads to administrative account takeover

    An incomplete patch for CVE-2026-18556 allows for authentication bypass and account takeover in N-central Versions through 2026.3.1

    KEV Aug 3, 2026
  • High 8.2
    CVE-2026-18556 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 44%

    Unauthenticated administrative account takeover

    Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability in N-able N-central allows Authentication Bypass. This issue affects N-central: through 2026.1.

    KEV Aug 4, 2026
  • Medium 6.5

    better-auth before 1.4.9 Two-Factor Authentication Bypass via session.cookieCache

    better-auth versions before 1.4.9 contain a two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability when session.cookieCache is enabled. Attackers with valid primary credentials can access authenticated routes without completing second-factor verification by exploitin…

  • High 7.8

    Traefik v3.7.0 Path Traversal via RewriteTarget Authentication Bypass

    Traefik versions >= v3.7.0 and <= v3.7.7 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider's RewriteTarget middleware (generated from the nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target annotation). When an Ingress path uses a regex t…

  • Critical 9.2

    Authentication and Authorization Bypass in Coverity Connect

    A Spring Security authentication and authorization bypass exists in Coverity Connect versions between 2023.6.0 and 2026.3.0. An unauthenticated malicious threat actor that can send a specially crafted HTTP request is able to bypass authentication and authoriz…

  • High 8.0

    Bypass of 2FA for Connections via Unattended Access in TeamViewer for macOS

    TeamViewer Full Client and Host for macOS before version 15.80 contain a business logic error that can allow an authenticated attacker to bypass a configured 2FA for Connections approval flow via Unattended Access and establish a remote connection to an affec…

  • Medium 6.5

    Dogtag-pki: pki-core: redhat-pki: pki: acme admin enable/disable endpoint authentication bypass via trailing slash

    A flaw was found in Dogtag PKI's ACME responder where the web.xml security constraints use exact URL pattern matching for admin-only enable/disable endpoints. By appending a trailing slash to the URL, an unauthenticated attacker can bypass the Tomcat authenti…

  • Critical 9.8

    SMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover via 'billing_phone' Parameter

    The SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass leading to Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.7 via the `billing_phone` parameter. Thi…

  • High 8.1

    WordPress miniOrange Discord Integration plugin <= 2.2.4 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in miniOrange Discord Integration <= 2.2.4 versions.

  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.6.7 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Unauthenticated Broken Authentication in Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.7 versions.

  • High 8.7

    ONTAP versions 9.16.1 and higher with WebAuthn multi-factor authentication (MFA) configured are susceptible to a vulner…

  • High 8.9

    FUXA Vulnerable to Pre-auth RCE via Path Manipulation & Configuration Injection

    FUXA is a web-based Process Visualization (SCADA/HMI/Dashboard) software. Versions 1.2.11 until 1.3.1 allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve Full Remote Code Execution (RCE) as root. The exploit succeeds even when the platform is configured in it…

  • Critical 9.4

    Joomla Extension - balbooa.com - Authentication bypass in Gridbox < 1.6.0

    Joomla Extension - balbooa.com - Authentication bypass in Gridbox < 1.6.0 - The Joomla extension Gridbox is vulnerable an authenticated bypass, potentially leading to full admin access.

  • High 7.1

    Frappe LMS enrollment bypass in paid courses via unrelated batch

    Frappe LMS is an open source learning management system. In version 2.51.0 and earlier, a user could bypass payment validation for courses by using unrelated batch. This has been patched in 2.52.0 with enrollment now validating that the batch is linked to cou…

  • Medium 5.6

    Sipeed PicoClaw First Run Setup access_control.go authentication bypass

    A vulnerability was detected in Sipeed PicoClaw up to 0.2.9. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file web/backend/middleware/access_control.go of the component First Run Setup. Performing a manipulation of the argument allowed_cidrs results in …

  • Medium 5.4

    Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Tampering Vulnerability

    Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to perform tampering over a network.

  • Medium 6.5

    NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker can cause an authentication bypass …

  • High 7.5

    WordPress ProfileGrid plugin <= 5.9.9.6 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Metagauss ProfileGrid profilegrid-user-profiles-groups-and-communities allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects ProfileGrid : from n/a through <= 5.9.9.6.

  • Medium 6.5

    WordPress Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.1.12 - Broken Authentication vulnerability

    Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in VillaTheme Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce woo-abandoned-cart-recovery allows Authentication Abuse.This issue affects Abandoned Cart Recovery for WooCommerce: from n/a through <…