CVE-2026-1720

8.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.8). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WowOptin: Next-Gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups and Optins for Lead Generation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the 'install_and_active_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 25% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-862
Published: 2026-03-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optin/trunk/includes/utils/class-notice.php#L848
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3456826/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee0c0e29-b117-4480-b5b7-995878af8c57?source=cve

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