CVE-2026-87741

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-28. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: 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 ConvertPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.3 via the style parameter of the cp_display_preview_modal AJAX action. The vulnerability exists because the action's nonce guard is gated behind an isset() check and fails open when the cp_admin_page_nonce parameter is omitted entirely, no capability check is performed on the callback, and sanitize_text_field() — applied to the $style value before it is concatenated directly into a shortcode string evaluated by do_shortcode() — does not strip shortcode delimiters, allowing an attacker to inject a second, fully attacker-controlled [smile_modal] invocation that causes smile_modal_popup() to pass attacker-supplied base64-decoded bytes to maybe_unserialize() with no allowed_classes restriction. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject a PHP object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA 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
Severity88% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
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
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
31st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

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 total (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

September 28, 2026

Last Modified

September 29, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 28, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

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Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-87741(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 23× in last 7d / 23× 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 05:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-03 16:12 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-03 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 03:07 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-03 03:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-02 14:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 00:56 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-02 00:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-01 11:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-30 22:43 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-30 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-30 09:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-29 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-29 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-29 19:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-29 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-29 10:07 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-29 10:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-28 20:29 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-28 19:58 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-28 19:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-87741?
CVE-2026-87741 is a high vulnerability published on September 28, 2026. The ConvertPlus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.3 via the style parameter of the cpdisplaypreviewmodal AJAX action. The vulnerability exists because the action's nonce guard is gated behind an isset() check and fails…
When was CVE-2026-87741 disclosed?
CVE-2026-87741 was first published on September 28, 2026, with the most recent update on September 29, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-87741 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-87741 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (31st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-87741?
CVE-2026-87741 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-87741?
No fix for CVE-2026-87741 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-2026-87741 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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