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🛡️ CVE-2026-14812

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-912 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Premium SEO WordPress plugin is malicious: it ships an unauthenticated backdoor that creates a hidden administrator account and, in some builds, also enables remote code execution, server-side request forgery and arbitrary front-end script/content injection, giving an unauthenticated attacker full control of the affected site.

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-14812 is classified as CWE-912: Hidden Functionality. The product contains functionality that is not documented, not part of the specification, and not accessible through an interface or command sequence that is obvious to the product's users or administrators.

Affected software

CVE-2026-14812 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 6 August 2026 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-912: Hidden Functionality) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-912
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

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