Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRegister or obtain subscriber account
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DeliverySend proxy-config update (no authz check)
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ExploitPoint proxy at attacker-controlled host
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ExecutionVictim loads proxied page
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PersistMalicious content served from trusted origin
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ImpactSession theft or defacement
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
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 the Unbounce Landing Pages plugin (versions 1.1.1 through before 1.1.5) installed and using its front-end proxy feature. The attacker needs an authenticated account of any privilege level, explicitly including subscriber (PR:L) - practical where WordPress user self-registration is enabled. Exploitation is a missing-authorization flaw: the config-update endpoint that controls the proxy target performs no capability/authorization check. Realized impact against high-value victims requires user interaction (UI:R): a site visitor or administrator must load the proxied path so the attacker-controlled content is served from the site's origin. Limiting factors: needs a valid low-privileged login (not fully unauthenticated), the proxy feature must be relied upon, and the most damaging outcomes depend on a victim visiting the poisoned page. |
| Impact | This is a genuine mid-to-high priority for sites running the affected plugin, but the raw vendor CVSS of 8.0 slightly overstates it. Signals in agreement: the CVSS vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R) shows network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation requiring only a low-privileged authenticated account, and a public POC exists (WPScan), which raises the practical exploitability above a theoretical bug. Signals that temper it: PR:L means it is NOT unauthenticated - an attacker needs at least a subscriber account (realistic on WordPress sites with open registration, but still a gate), and UI:R means impact against high-value targets (session/cookie theft, admin compromise) depends on a victim actually loading the attacker-poisoned proxied page. There is no EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no SSVC data provided, so there is no evidence of mass or automated exploitation - treat this as a patch-promptly item rather than an emergency. The vendor's C:H/I:H/A:H is defensible for confidentiality (attacker-served JavaScript executes in the site's own trusted origin, enabling cookie/session theft) and integrity (arbitrary content/defacement from the origin), but the A:H (availability) rating is weakly justified by the description and should be verified - serving malicious content does not obviously deny service. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag is misleading: this is a missing-authorization flaw (CWE-862), not an authentication bypass, since the attacker must already be authenticated. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker registers a low-privileged (subscriber) account on a WordPress site running Unbounce Landing Pages < 1.1.5, then sends a request updating the front-end proxy configuration - which performs no authorization check - to point the proxy at a host the attacker controls. When a visitor or administrator subsequently loads the proxied path, attacker-controlled content (e.g., malicious JavaScript) is served from the site's own origin, enabling content spoofing or session/cookie theft. A public proof-of-concept is available from WPScan, lowering the barrier to reproduction. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 19, 2026
Missing authorization in the Unbounce Landing Pages WordPress plugin (version 1.1.1 through versions before 1.1.5) lets any authenticated user, including a subscriber-level account, rewrite the target host of the plugin's front-end proxy and cause attacker-controlled content to be served from the victim site's own origin. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the plugin is patched in 1.1.5, but no CISA KEV entry was identified at time of analysis. The vendor's CVSS score of 8.0 is slightly generous: exploitation requires a valid low-privileged login (practical where self-registration is enabled) and, for the most damaging outcomes, a visitor or administrator must load the poisoned proxied path, which is why our independent assessment lowers availability impact to None while keeping confidentiality and integrity at High.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade the Unbounce Landing Pages plugin to 1.1.5 or later, which adds the authorization check the configuration handler was missing; verify the version after updating because the plugin is not distributed through the wordpress.org directory in the usual way and cached copies may persist. Where an immediate update is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to deactivate the plugin entirely, which removes the vulnerable endpoint but also removes all landing-page proxying, or alternatively to stop relying on the front-end proxy feature and clear its stored target configuration, which preserves the rest of the plugin's functionality at the cost of the proxied landing pages going dark. Because the prerequisite is any authenticated account, closing self-registration and auditing existing subscriber accounts (removing dormant or unknown users) materially reduces exposure, though it does not fix the underlying missing check and will not help sites that legitimately grant low-privilege accounts. Finally, review any proxied paths for unexpected content that may already have been injected, and purge page and object caches on the affected origin so poisoned responses are not served after the upgrade; consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f13143dc-5674-4e9f-8aa0-8d22df7a7379/ and the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85574 for tracking details.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 1 package in euvd
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The plugin operates a front-end proxy that fetches remote landing-page content and re-serves it from the WordPress site's own domain so links, assets, and SEO attribution stay on the customer's origin. The configuration endpoint controlling that proxy's backend target is handled without any capability check, nonce validation, or ownership verification, a textbook CWE-862 Missing Authorization defect. In WordPress's role model a subscriber holds essentially only the read capability, so the complete absence of a current_user_can() style gate on a state-changing handler means any logged-in session, however low-privileged, is sufficient to repoint the proxy. The resulting primitive is arbitrary same-origin content injection: the attacker's server response is rendered under the trusted host name, enabling phishing pages, defacement, cache poisoning of the proxied path, and stored script execution in the site's origin context where any origin-scoped cookies or tokens are reachable. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:unknown:unbounce_landing_pages:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* still carries an unassigned vendor token, reflecting incomplete vendor mapping rather than a product ambiguity. The disagreement between the vendor's A:H and our A:N reflects that the flaw degrades trust and content integrity rather than taking the site offline.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Network-reachable low-complexity abuse needs only a subscriber account (PR:L) and a victim visit (UI:R); origin-served content yields C:H/I:H, but description does not substantiate availability impact so A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
The Unbounce Landing Pages WordPress plugin before 1.1.5 does not perform any authorisation check when updating the configuration its front-end proxy relies on, allowing any authenticated user, such as a subscriber, to point that proxy at a host they control and have arbitrary content served from the site's own origin.
Technical POC Analysis
Bug class: CWE-862, Missing Authorization (WPScan classifies it as Type: NO AUTHORISATION, OWASP Top 10 A5 Broken Access Control).
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Executive ViewAI
WordPress sites running the Unbounce Landing Pages plugin versions 1.1.1 through earlier than 1.1.5 face a high-severity authorization flaw for which publicly available exploit code exists. A low-privileged account can alter the plugin's front-end proxy destination, allowing attacker-controlled content to be served from the victim site's own origin, which can undermine visitor trust, damage brand reputation, and expose or manipulate site content. Leadership should prioritize upgrading to 1.1.5 across all affected properties and verify no unauthorized proxy changes have occurred.
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Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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EUVD-2026-83503
GHSA-jqrj-3hxj-9rmf
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
VulDB
Exploit-DB