CVE•Published 2026-01-07•Modified 2026-10-07•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2025-15018

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 74% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Description

The Optional Email plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.11. This is due to the plugin not restricting its 'random_password' filter to registration contexts, allowing the filter to affect password reset key generation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to set a known password reset key when initiating a password reset, reset the password of any user including administrators, and gain access to their accounts.

Timeline

Published 2026-01-07

Modified 2026-10-07

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2025-15018

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2025-15018

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-15018

Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.

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CVE-2025-15018