CVE-2026-8906
Description
The WP Promoter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Predictions
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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8451fe09-4280-49ef-b088-698cbf40b86b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-promoter/tags/1.3/admin-wp-promoter.php#L45
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-promoter/tags/1.3/admin-wp-promoter.php#L64
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-promoter/tags/1.3/admin-wp-promoter.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-promoter/tags/1.3/admin-wp-promoter.php#L120
CWEs
CWE-352
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.