CVE-2026-14281

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-09-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-86548 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.9%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists 101gen Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code versions up to and including 4.8.6 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

The Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.6. This is due to missing permission enforcement on the publicly accessible REST route POST /wp-json/wawp/v1/signup/ and the absence of a key allowlist in the finish_registration_logic function, which copies the attacker-controlled wawp_custom_fields parameter directly into update_user_meta() — allowing sensitive meta keys such as wp_capabilities and wp_user_level to be set by the caller. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new account with the administrator role and gain full administrative access to the site. When OTP verification is enabled at signup, the OTP session token (otp_transient) is returned in plaintext in the HTTP response body, and the handle_magic_link_request() handler marks that token as verified on any unauthenticated GET request containing it without ever checking the OTP code value — making the OTP step trivially bypassable with no inbox or SMS access required.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.9%
EPSS %ILE
60th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 25, 2026

Last Modified

September 25, 2026

References (14)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-14281(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 130× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 206 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 106 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 16:20 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 16:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-31 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  11. 2026-10-30 13:44 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-30 13:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  14. 2026-10-29 12:45 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-29 12:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 11:57 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 11:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 60th percentile
  20. 2026-10-27 11:08 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-27 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
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  24. 2026-10-26 10:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 59th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-25 14:48 UTCEG score recompute
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  3. 2026-10-25 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-24 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  5. 2026-10-24 16:13 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-24 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
  8. 2026-10-23 15:21 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-23 15:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-22 14:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-21 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 44th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-21 13:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-20 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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  18. 2026-10-20 12:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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  21. 2026-10-19 12:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  23. 2026-10-18 10:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  27. 2026-10-17 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  30. 2026-10-16 07:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  33. 2026-10-15 07:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  36. 2026-10-14 02:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  38. 2026-10-12 22:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  41. 2026-10-12 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  45. 2026-10-11 18:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  47. 2026-10-11 13:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  49. 2026-10-11 09:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  53. 2026-10-10 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  55. 2026-10-10 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  61. 2026-10-09 21:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  63. 2026-10-09 17:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  69. 2026-10-08 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  71. 2026-10-08 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-h3w5-2jvm-gf7p · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC). No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.

  • GitHub PoCmurrez/CVE-2026-14281
    Published Sep 25, 2026

    Unauthenticated privilege escalation in WordPress WAWP (Automation Web Platform) ≤ 4.8.6 via public REST signup and unsanitized wawp_custom_fields → admin. Python check/exploit PoC (PoCbit).

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-14281?
CVE-2026-14281 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 25, 2026. The Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.6. This is due to missing permission enforcement on the publicly accessible REST route POST…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-14281 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-14281 was published on September 25, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 25, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-14281 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-14281 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (60th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-14281?
CVE-2026-14281 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-14281?
No fix for CVE-2026-14281 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The CVE record's CNA (Wordfence) lists 101gen Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code versions up to and including 4.8.6 as affected. No release containing a fix is confirmed on record. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-14281 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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