WHIZZ <= 1.1.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Reset
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- No fix listed
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
- Published
- Last modified
- FIRST's estimate of the chance attackers exploit it in the next 30 days, updated daily.What do these mean? →
- 0.18% · 7th percentile
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 35/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical impact: total
Summary
The WHIZZ WordPress plugin lets an attacker set an arbitrary password for any user, including administrators, and take over their accounts. The plugin does not validate the password-reset key before changing a password and relies only on a nonce that unauthenticated visitors can see.
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The WHIZZ WordPress plugin through 1.1.8 does not validate the password-reset key before updating a user's password, relying only on a nonce that is exposed to unauthenticated visitors, allowing attackers to set an arbitrary password for any user, including administrators, and fully take over their accounts.
cve.now Index
- 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
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
- Posted on X by cve.now
Affected versions
- Unknown WHIZZ
through 1.1.8
Evidence 1
- Exploit
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-115230
Is CVE-2026-115230 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-2026-115230?
WHIZZ: through 1.1.8.Source: cve.now feed data