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Real Estate Website Builder <= 1.4.3 - Unauthenticated Account Takeover via User Email Update

9.8CriticalCISA-ADP
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
0.19% · 8th percentile
35/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
On X
View the cve.now post
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

The Real Estate Website Builder WordPress plugin (placester) has an AJAX action that updates account details without capability, nonce, or ownership checks. An attacker can use it to overwrite any user's email address, including an administrator's, and then take over that account through the standard password-reset flow.

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The placester WordPress plugin through 1.4.3 does not perform any capability, nonce or ownership check on an AJAX action that updates account details, allowing unauthenticated attackers to overwrite any user's email address, including an administrator's, and take over the account through the standard password-reset flow.

cve.now Index

35Pcve.now Index 35 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure20/25No login or user action needed per the CVSS vector, CISA rates it automatable · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity10/10CVSS 9.8, total technical impact per CISA
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 80 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 75 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 40 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

  4. Record last updated
  5. Posted on X by cve.now

Affected versions

  • Unknown placester

    through 1.4.3

Evidence 1

  1. Exploit

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about CVE-2026-113584

Is CVE-2026-113584 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-113584?

placester: through 1.4.3.Source: cve.now feed data