CVE-2026-42749

high

Published 2026-05-27 · Modified 2026-05-27

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CVSS v3

7.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Themeisle Disable Comments for Any Post Types (Remove comments) comments-plus allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects Disable Comments for Any Post Types (Remove comments): from n/a through <= 1.3.0.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/comments-plus/vulnerability/wordpress-disable-comments-for-any-post-types-remove-comments-plugin-1-3-0-broken-authentication-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

CWEs

CWE-288

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.