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CVE-2026-9178

HIGH
7.5
CVSS 3.1
Description
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.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-9178
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Reserved
2026-05-21 14:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-24 05:33 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-24 05:33 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-862
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Vendor / Product
hancock11 / WP Forms Connector
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.5 HIGH CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
hancock11 WP Forms Connector 0 ≤ 1.8
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-862 cna CWE-862 Missing Authorization
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
7.5 HIGH 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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