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CVE-2026-9178 Detail

Description

The WP Forms Connector plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.8. The plugin registers the REST route wp/v3/user/list/<id> (callback userDetail()) with permission_callback set to '__return_true', and the function's home-grown authentication only verifies that the supplied 'Username' HTTP header maps to an administrator account and that a 'Password' HTTP header is non-empty. It never validates the password with wp_check_password() (unlike the sibling delete_wc_user() function which does). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive information for any registered user ID — including the WordPress password hash (user_pass) and email address — by sending a request with a valid administrator login name (commonly the default 'admin') and any arbitrary password value.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-forms-connector/tags/1.8/WP-Forms-Connector.php#L1464 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-forms-connector/tags/1.8/WP-Forms-Connector.php#L1477 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-forms-connector/tags/1.8/WP-Forms-Connector.php#L1490 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-forms-connector/tags/1.8/WP-Forms-Connector.php#L739 Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5dfafee-9b6c-4e57-b263-39ff15cd3b51?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-862 Missing Authorization Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-9178
NVD Published Date:
06/24/2026
NVD Last Modified:
06/24/2026
Source:
Wordfence