CVE-2026-96897 (GCVE-0-2026-96897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-27 06:00 – Updated: 2026-09-27 06:00
VLAI
Title
Optima Express 8.5.0 - 8.7.5 - Unauthenticated Author Account Creation & Application Password Rotation via ihf_clear_cache
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f9fd04f4-282d-48… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Optima Express IDX Affected: 8.5.0 , < 8.7.6 (semver)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Alex Spataru WPScan
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

{
  "containers": {
    "cna": {
      "affected": [
        {
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "product": "Optima Express IDX",
          "vendor": "Unknown",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "8.7.6",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "8.5.0",
              "versionType": "semver"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "credits": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "finder",
          "value": "Alex Spataru"
        },
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "type": "coordinator",
          "value": "WPScan"
        }
      ],
      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "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."
        }
      ],
      "problemTypes": [
        {
          "descriptions": [
            {
              "description": "CWE-862 Missing Authorization",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "CWE"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "providerMetadata": {
        "dateUpdated": "2026-09-27T06:00:22.476Z",
        "orgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81",
        "shortName": "WPScan"
      },
      "references": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "exploit",
            "vdb-entry",
            "technical-description"
          ],
          "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f9fd04f4-282d-486f-8561-dbf02250282a/"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "discovery": "EXTERNAL"
      },
      "title": "Optima Express 8.5.0 - 8.7.5 - Unauthenticated Author Account Creation \u0026 Application Password Rotation via ihf_clear_cache",
      "x_generator": {
        "engine": "WPScan CVE Generator"
      }
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81",
    "assignerShortName": "WPScan",
    "cveId": "CVE-2026-96897",
    "datePublished": "2026-09-27T06:00:22.476Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-23T19:54:38.933Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-09-27T06:00:22.476Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.2",
  "vulnerability-lookup:meta": {
    "epss": {
      "cve": "CVE-2026-96897",
      "date": "2026-09-27",
      "epss": "0.00137",
      "percentile": "0.0255"
    },
    "nvd": {
      "cve": {
        "affected": [
          {
            "affectedData": [
              {
                "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                "product": "Optima Express IDX",
                "vendor": "Unknown",
                "versions": [
                  {
                    "lessThan": "8.7.6",
                    "status": "affected",
                    "version": "8.5.0",
                    "versionType": "semver"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ],
            "source": "contact@wpscan.com"
          }
        ],
        "cveTags": [],
        "descriptions": [
          {
            "lang": "en",
            "value": "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."
          }
        ],
        "id": "CVE-2026-96897",
        "lastModified": "2026-09-27T06:17:22.927",
        "metrics": {},
        "published": "2026-09-27T06:17:22.927",
        "references": [
          {
            "source": "contact@wpscan.com",
            "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f9fd04f4-282d-486f-8561-dbf02250282a/"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "contact@wpscan.com",
        "vulnStatus": "Received"
      }
    }
  }
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.