CVE-2026-8935
CriticalCVSS 9.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
Any unauthenticated user can gain full administrative access to WordPress, leading to complete site takeover.
Recommendation
Immediately update the WP MAPS PRO plugin to version 6.1.1 or later.
Other vulnerabilities in WP MAPS PRO
See all- 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.
- 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 WordPress plugin before 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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS