CVE•Published 2026-07-16•Modified 2026-07-16•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-12492
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
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not verify that a one-time password was actually validated before authenticating a user based on a supplied identifier, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user, including administrators, as well as to create new accounts.
Timeline
Published 2026-07-16
Modified 2026-07-16
External references
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).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-12492Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-12492Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-12492Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-12492GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-12492" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.