CVE•Published 2026-08-13•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-15413
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
10.0
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
22
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 78% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Link Factory WordPress plugin is a backdoor. Distributed as a "homepage sentence publisher", it exposes an operator-controlled REST API under /wp-json/link-factory/v1/ - authenticated by a detached Ed25519 signature verified against a hardcoded operator public key (except for the health check).
Timeline
Published 2026-08-13
Modified 2026-08-26
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-2026-15413Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-15413Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-15413Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-15413GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-15413" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.