CVE-2026-12255

MainWP Child < 6.1.2 - Unauthenticated Administrator Authentication Bypass via Passwordless Site Registration

High · published July 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The MainWP Child WordPress plugin before 6.1.2 does not verify the requester's identity in its site-registration request handler when password authentication has been disabled for the targeted account, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to obtain a valid authentication session as that account, including an administrator, by naming its login in a single registration request.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00468 · 39.5th percentile
Published
2026-07-27T06:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUL 06:00Z
    MainWP Child < 6.1.2 - Unauthenticated Administrator Authentication Bypass via Passwordless Site Registration
    cvelistv5