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CVE-2026-96897

Medium 5.3

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Deferred

Description

The Optima Express IDX WordPress plugin before 8.7.6 does not perform any authorisation check on one of its AJAX actions that is available to logged-out users, allowing unauthenticated attackers to force the creation of a fixed author-role account and to repeatedly rotate its application password on any connected install.

References1

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUM Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 8 · as of 9 November 2026
CWE
CWE-862

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