title: Clerk < 4.0.0 - Authentication Bypass and API Keys Disclosure
description: The Clerk WordPress plugin before 4.0.0 is affected by time-based attacks in the validation function for all API requests due to the usage of comparison operators to verify API keys against the ones stored in the site options.
problem types: CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy
affected:
{
vendor: Unknown
product: Clerk
versions:
status: affected, versionType: custom, version: 0, lessThan: 4.0.0
defaultStatus: unaffected
collectionURL: https://wordpress.org/plugins
}