CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-15413

10.0 CRITICAL Published 2026-08-13 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-13
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
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).

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-912 Hidden Functionality weakness

References