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CVE CVE-2026-15413

CVE-2026-15413

WordPress

Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS: 10CVSS
Published: 2026-08-13
Last modified: 2026-08-13
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-912

Description

The Link Factory WordPress plugin is a backdoor. Distributed as a "homepage sentence publisher", it exposes an operator-controlled REST API under /wp-json/link-factory/v1/ - authenticated by a detached Ed25519 signature verified against a hardcoded operator public key (except for the health check).

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4cad269d-0146-4ca9-a1ae-55f02c8e5433/

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