CVE-2026-18044

LOWPre-NVD 3.73.7—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 3.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-08-12. A secondary CVSS source baseline 3.7; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
3.7EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 3.7Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

The Estatik Real Estate Plugin WordPress plugin before 4.3.4 does not validate the same recipient list that it later uses to address the message sent by its property request form, allowing unauthenticated users to send emails to arbitrary recipients with arbitrary subject, body and Reply-To on sites where the form is configured to route to a custom address.

CVSS v3
3.7
EG Score
3.7LOWmedium confidence
EG Risk
17
EG Risk 17/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity37% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 12, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18044(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 04:14 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-04 04:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-30 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-30 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-29 15:20 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-09-27 09:57 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-27 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-22 10:46 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-22 10:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-19 04:19 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-19 04:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-16 05:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-15 22:03 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-15 22:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-12 15:00 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-12 11:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-12 11:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-11 14:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-11 09:36 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-09 05:18 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-09 05:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-05 13:00 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-05 13:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-02 14:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-02 06:19 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-02 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-29 23:16 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-29 23:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-26 16:55 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-26 16:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-08-25 13:43 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-08-25 13:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-08-22 07:27 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-08-22 07:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  32. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-08-19 01:10 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-08-19 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  37. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-08-15 18:53 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-08-15 18:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  41. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  42. 2026-08-12 12:36 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-08-12 12:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-08-12 12:11 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-08-12 11:34 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-08-12 11:33 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18044?
CVE-2026-18044 is a low vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. The Estatik Real Estate Plugin WordPress plugin before 4.3.4 does not validate the same recipient list that it later uses to address the message sent by its property request form, allowing unauthenticated users to send emails to arbitrary recipients with arbitrary subject, body and Reply-To on…
When was CVE-2026-18044 disclosed?
CVE-2026-18044 was first published on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-18044 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18044 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18044?
CVE-2026-18044 has a CVSS base score of 3.7 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18044?
No fix for CVE-2026-18044 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-18044 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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