CVE-2026-8732
CriticalCVSS 9.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Very high risk97th percentile - higher than 97% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can fully compromise the WordPress site by creating an administrator account and logging in via the returned magic URL, leading to complete data and functionality takeover.
Recommendation
Immediately update the WP Maps Pro plugin to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability. If no update is available, temporarily disable or uninstall the plugin.
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-2026-18465Medium
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.
- CVE-2026-18464High
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.
Original NVD description (English source)
The WP Maps Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Administrator Account Creation in all versions up to, and including, 6.1.0. This is due to the wpgmp_temp_access_ajax AJAX action being registered with wp_ajax_nopriv_ and protected only by a nonce check using the fc-call-nonce nonce, which is publicly embedded into every frontend page via wp_localize_script as the nonce field of the wpgmp_local JavaScript object, rendering the check ineffective as an access control mechanism. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke the wpgmp_temp_access_support handler with check_temp=false, which unconditionally creates a new WordPress user with the hardcoded role of administrator via wp_insert_user() and returns a magic login URL that, when visited, calls wp_set_auth_cookie() to fully authenticate the attacker as the newly created administrator, resulting in complete site takeover.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS