CVE-2020-52402FA bypass through deleting devices in wagtail-2fa
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 1.00%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 37% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In wagtail-2fa before 1.4.1, any user with access to the CMS can view and delete other users 2FA devices by going to the correct path. The user does not require special permissions in order to do so. By deleting the other users device they can disable the target users 2FA devices and potentially compromise the account if they figure out their password. The problem has been patched in version 1.4.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.00% · top 37% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
- affected < 1.4.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIwagtail-2faGHSA-9gjv-6qq6-v7qm (opens in a new tab)
References
References2
- https://github.com/labd/wagtail-2fa/security/advisories/GHSA-9gjv-6qq6-v7qm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/labd/wagtail-2fa/commit/ac23550d33b7436e90e3beea904647907eba5b74 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0234 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9gjv-6qq6-v7qm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-5240)Record last updated .