CVE-2026-96897CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2026-96897

Medium · published September 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00182 · 7.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-09-27T10:17Z
References (1)
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f9fd04f4-282d-486f-8561-dbf02250282a/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 SEP 03:30Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 27 SEP 06:00Z
    Optima Express 8.5.0 - 8.7.5 - Unauthenticated Author Account Creation & Application Password Rotation via ihf_clear_cache
    cvelistv5