CVE•Published 2026-08-20•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-75860
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
27
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 73% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The JSON Options WordPress plugin through 0.0.4 does not have any capability check or nonce verification on one of its actions, which runs on every request and is available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to update arbitrary WordPress options. This can be leveraged to enable user registration and set the default role to administrator, leading to privilege escalation and full site takeover.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-20
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-2026-75860Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-75860Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-75860Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-75860GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-75860" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-75860 on GitHub.