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AWP Classifieds EUVDEUVD-2026-100870

| CVE-2026-96904 MEDIUM
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
2026-10-14 WPScan GHSA-c67v-qmm6-33w7
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: WPScan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Identify AWP Classifieds site < 4.4.9
  2. Exploit
    Craft request referencing payment transaction
  3. Execution
    Bypass listing ownership check
  4. Impact
    Read private contact email on listing

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation is triggered on the plugin's ad submission page when a request references a payment transaction; the plugin fails to verify that the requester is authorized to view the referenced listing, so no authentication, account, or user interaction is required (PR:N/UI:N). The practical requirement is simply a reachable site running AWP Classifieds before version 4.4.9 that has listings with stored private contact emails. The limiting factors are the narrow impact - only the private contact email of a listing is exposed, not credentials, content modification, or site control - and that the affected product is a specific optional WordPress plugin rather than a default or core component, so only sites that installed and use this plugin for listings are affected.

Impact

This is a genuine but low-to-moderate priority issue, and the signals are largely consistent with a modest real-world risk. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity access with no user interaction, which raises concern, but the impact is narrow: only confidentiality is affected and only at a Low level (C:L/I:N/A:N), reflecting disclosure of a single private contact email per listing rather than full data compromise. EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile), and SSVC lists Exploitation as 'none' (i.e. not observed in the wild) with only 'partial' technical impact, so despite 'Automatable: yes' there is no evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability is NOT on CISA KEV. Public exploit code exists (WPScan), which raises the practical likelihood of opportunistic scanning above what EPSS alone suggests, but POC availability is distinct from active exploitation and should not be read as the latter. Net: a real, patchable information-disclosure flaw worth remediating, but not an emergency - the low impact scope and absence of KEV/active-exploitation signals keep it below critical-triage thresholds.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An unauthenticated attacker crafts a request to the ad submission page referencing a payment transaction identifier, bypassing the ownership check that should restrict listing visibility, and reads the private contact email stored on an arbitrary listing. Because the attack is network-based, low-complexity, and requires no authentication or user interaction, it can be automated to harvest emails across many listings. Publicly available exploit code (via WPScan) lowers the barrier to carrying this out.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026

Unauthenticated information disclosure in the AWP Classifieds WordPress plugin before version 4.4.9 lets remote attackers read the private contact email address stored on any listing by submitting a request to the ad submission page that references a payment transaction. The plugin omits the ownership/authorisation check on that code path, so no account, login, or user interaction is required (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, score 5.3); the only exposure is the listing's private contact email, not credentials, content modification, or site control. Publicly available exploit code exists and WPScan published a proof-of-concept write-up, but there is no KEV entry and EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile), so this is a genuine low-to-moderate priority issue affecting only sites running this optional plugin with listings that store private contact emails.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: upgrade AWP Classifieds to 4.4.9 or later, which restores the authorization/ownership check on the ad submission page when a payment transaction is referenced; confirm the update in the WordPress plugin dashboard or by redeploying the fixed plugin version. Where the plugin is installed but not actually used for classified listings, deactivating and removing it entirely is the cleanest fix with no functional trade-off. If immediate patching is not possible, urgent compensating controls are: (1) temporarily deactivate the plugin, which fully removes exposure but also disables ad submission and listing display; (2) if the site can tolerate it, stop storing raw private contact emails in listing records and route buyer contact through a contact form instead, accepting that legitimately protected contact details may no longer be visible to listing owners; and (3) place the plugin's ad submission endpoint behind site-level authentication or a WAF rule that rejects requests referencing payment transactions from unauthenticated clients, understanding that this can break the legitimate paid-ad submission flow for anonymous users. Given the CVSS score of 5.3, the partial technical impact per SSVC, and no KEV-confirmed exploitation, patch on a normal maintenance cadence rather than as an emergency, but treat the plugin as deprecated/unused if the site has no classified-listing requirement.

Affected VersionsENISA

AWP Classifieds 0 <4.4.9

Affected Packages

euvd awp_classifieds fix: 4.4.9

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

AWP Classifieds is a third-party WordPress plugin that adds classified-listing and paid-ad functionality to a site; the vulnerable component is the plugin's ad submission page combined with logic that handles references to a payment transaction. When a request carries a payment-transaction reference, the plugin retrieves and renders the associated listing without confirming that the requester owns or is otherwise entitled to view it, so an ownership/authorisation check that should gate the listing data is effectively skipped. This is classified as CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor) rather than a classic missing-authorisation CWE: the root cause is failure to verify that a request is authorised to view a listing before disclosing its private contact email field. The CPE entry (cpe:2.3:a:unknown:awp_classifieds:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) is generic and does not pin a vendor, so version identification should be done through the plugin's own changelog/version constant or the WPScan advisory (before 4.4.9). The CVSS vector supplied and independently assessed by us is consistent: network-reachable, low attack complexity, PR:N (unauthenticated), UI:N (no user interaction), Scope Unchanged, and Confidentiality:Low only, which matches the narrow disclosure of a single stored email field. WordPress runs the plugin in PHP with database access, so the practical exploitation surface is any reachable site that has AWP Classifieds installed and active below 4.4.9.

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Severity by source

Vendor (WPScan) PRIMARY 5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.3 MEDIUM

Missing authorization check allows remote unauthenticated low-complexity access (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only a private email leaks, so C:L and I:N/A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).

CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 14, 2026 - 14:22 NVD
5.3 (None) 5.3 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Oct 14, 2026 - 08:16 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 14, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3
CVE Published
Oct 14, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

The AWP Classifieds WordPress plugin before 4.4.9 does not verify that a request is authorised to view a listing when a payment transaction is referenced, allowing unauthenticated attackers to bypass the ownership check on the ad submission page and read the private contact email stored on any listing.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 92% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche WordPress classifieds plugin, limited specialized deployment footprint
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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