CVE-2026-9178CWE-862

WP Forms Connector <= 1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'user/list' REST Endpoint

High · published June 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The WP Forms Connector plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.8. The plugin registers the REST route wp/v3/user/list/<id> (callback userDetail()) with permission_callback set to '__return_true', and the function's home-grown authentication only verifies that the supplied 'Username' HTTP header maps to an administrator account and that a 'Password' HTTP header is non-empty. It never validates the password with wp_check_password() (unlike the sibling delete_wc_user() function which does). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive information for any registered user ID — including the WordPress password hash (user_pass) and email address — by sending a request with a valid administrator login name (commonly the default 'admin') and any arbitrary password value.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00612 · 48.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-06-24T05:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUN 05:33Z
    WP Forms Connector <= 1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'user/list' REST Endpoint
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