CVE•Published 2026-08-31•Modified 2026-09-08•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-66047
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
43
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 57% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
ProfilePress (wp-user-avatar) WordPress plugin before 4.17.2 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to install and activate arbitrary plugins by brute-forcing a weak 32-bit connect token via the ppress_connect_process AJAX handler. Attackers can supply a caller-controlled URL through the file request parameter to trigger silent plugin installation and activation, achieving PHP code execution as the web-server user.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-31
Modified 2026-09-08
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-2026-66047Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-66047Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-66047Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-66047GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-66047" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-66047 on GitHub.