CVE-2026-18464
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs
Summary
The WP MAPS PRO WordPress plugin before 6.1.3 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions, which is also available to unauthenticated users, and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.
Risk Assessment
Unauthenticated attackers can cause server overload, leading to unavailability of the service for legitimate users.
Recommendation
It is recommended to immediately update the plugin to version 6.1.3 or later, which contains the fix.
Other vulnerabilities in WP MAPS PRO
See all- CVE-2026-8935Critical
The WP MAPS PRO WordPress plugin before version 6.1.1 registers an unauthenticated AJAX action which, given a valid nonce that is publicly emitted on any frontend page enqueuing its map script, unconditionally creates an administrator account and returns a magic-login URL granting interactive admin access.
- CVE-2026-8732Critical
The WP Maps Pro plugin for WordPress up to version 6.1.0 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability via administrator account creation. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the wpgmp_temp_access_ajax AJAX action, protected only by a nonce publicly embedded on every page, to create a new user with administrator role and take over the entire site.
- CVE-2026-18465Medium
The WP MAPS PRO WordPress plugin before 6.1.3 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions, which is also available to unauthenticated users, and does not properly validate a user-controlled path before using it in a file inclusion, allowing unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary existing local PHP files on the server.
Original NVD description (English source)
The WP MAPS PRO WordPress plugin before 6.1.3 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions, which is also available to unauthenticated users, and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.