Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privileged Subscriber
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ExploitReplay unbound nonce to dismissal handler
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ImpactSuppress non-dismissible sensitive-file warning from admins
Vulnerability Assessment
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1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated low-privileged account at Subscriber level (CVSS PR:L), so the site must grant or allow such accounts - the description scopes it to 'sites in certain configurations,' e.g. open Subscriber self-registration, which is the primary limiting factor. The plugin version must be LiteSpeed Cache before 7.9.2. No end-user interaction is needed (UI:N), and the request is remote over the network (AV:N), but the high attack complexity (AC:H) indicates the attack is not reliably reproducible against all deployments. Impact is confined to dismissing admin notices the plugin marks non-dismissible - including the warning about publicly accessible sensitive files - and does not itself grant data access or code execution. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-severity, low-priority issue, and the multiple signals agree rather than conflict. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 3.1 Low) reflects that an authenticated low-privileged user (PR:L) can only achieve a limited integrity impact (I:L) with high attack complexity (AC:H) and no confidentiality or availability effect. SSVC reinforces this: Exploitation 'none' (no observed or public exploitation), Automatable 'no', and only 'partial' technical impact, which maps to vuln.today's 'monitor' decision label. There is no CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score was supplied, so there is no evidence of active or probable exploitation; status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' The only nuance worth flagging for defenders is that the integrity impact - dismissing a non-dismissible admin notice - can suppress a warning that sensitive files may be publicly accessible, so the real-world concern is operational (an admin losing visibility of a separate misconfiguration) rather than direct compromise. Net: this is a correctly-rated low-risk authorization flaw, not a high-CVSS-but-low-risk mismatch; treat as routine patching, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a WordPress site running LiteSpeed Cache before 7.9.2 that permits low-privilege accounts (e.g. open Subscriber registration), an attacker logs in with a Subscriber account and sends the admin-notice dismissal request. Because the handler performs no capability check and the nonce is not bound to the specific notice, the attacker can dismiss notices the plugin marks non-dismissible, including the warning that sensitive files may be publicly accessible - hiding that warning from administrators. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the trigger mechanics beyond the missing capability check and unbound nonce are not further detailed in the available sources. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 23, 2026
The LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress before 7.9.2 allows an authenticated Subscriber-level user to dismiss administrative notices that the plugin explicitly marks as non-dismissible, including a warning that sensitive files may be publicly accessible. The dismissal handler lacks a capability check and relies on a nonce that is not tied to the specific notice, so the weakness only materialises on sites in certain configurations - most notably those where low-privileged accounts such as Subscribers exist or can self-register. Impact is limited to suppressing the display of a warning; the flaw does not by itself expose files, grant data access, or allow code execution, and severity is low (CVSS 3.1, AC:H, I:L). No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, CISA SSVC records no exploitation, and the priority decision is monitor.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin to version 7.9.2 or later, which is the fix identified in the WPScan advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a1f6a6c7-1d08-4d5c-ac57-bda5ff59737b/) and the NVD entry (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113501); patching is straightforward through the WordPress plugin update mechanism or by deploying the 7.9.2 package. Because the precondition is an authenticated low-privileged account, sites that do not need them can remove the exposure path by disabling open Subscriber self-registration and auditing existing Subscriber accounts, with the trade-off that legitimate community or membership sign-ups would be affected. The supplied sources do not describe any further workarounds, and note that suppressing or resolving this bug does not address whatever underlying condition the sensitive-files notice was warning about, so administrators should separately verify that the flagged files are not publicly reachable. Given the low severity, the monitor priority, the absence of reported exploitation, and no public exploit code identified, this is not an emergency update, but the fixed version should be scheduled in the normal maintenance cycle.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
LiteSpeed Cache is a widely deployed WordPress caching and optimisation plugin whose admin dashboard raises notices to administrators, including a warning that sensitive files may be publicly accessible. The dismissal handler for those notices is registered as an administrative action but, per the reported issue, performs no capability check (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) and validates a nonce that is not bound to the individual notice being dismissed. That combination means the authorization decision rests only on possessing a nonce that is valid for some notice rather than on the user's role or on the specific notice targeted. The assessed vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N reflects a remotely reachable path that requires an authenticated low-privileged account (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), high attack complexity (AC:H) - the outcome is not reliably reproducible across all deployments - and impact confined to integrity of the notice state, with no confidentiality or availability effect. The scope is unchanged; the underlying site exposure that the suppressed warning describes is a separate condition from this bug, and the available sources do not describe additional exploitation mechanics beyond the missing capability check and the unbound nonce.
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AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Remote (AV:N) but requires a Subscriber account (PR:L) and only works in certain configurations (AC:H); dismissing a notice is a minor integrity change (I:L) with no confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 does not perform a capability check on its admin-notice dismissal handler, and the nonce it relies on is not bound to the specific notice being dismissed, so on sites in certain configurations a low-privileged authenticated user (Subscriber) can dismiss administrative notices the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 7.9.2 marks as non-dismissible, including a warning that sensitive files may be publicly accessible.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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