🛡️ CVE-2026-12981

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

The CAFEHAUS API WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not have any authentication or authorisation when updating user passwords, allowing unauthenticated attackers to set the password of any user, including administrators, and fully take over their accounts.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-12981 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2026-12981 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-24
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-24
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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