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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2026-96897

CVE-2026-96897: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Optima Express IDX WordPress plugin before 8.7.6 does not perform any authorisation check on one of its AJAX actions that is available to logged-out users, allowing unauthenticated attackers to force the creation of a fixed author-role account and to repeatedly rotate its application password on any connected install.

Source: NVD

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Severity

Score

Technologies

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Published date

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