Admin Safety Guard: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Admin Safety Guard is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Admin Safety Guard
- Plugin slug
admin-safety-guard- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 19, 2026
This CVE was published Mar 19, 2026 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Admin Safety Guard to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Themepaste Admin Safety Guard admin-safety-guard allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects Admin Safety Guard: from n/a through <= 1.2.6.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H