Description

The WowOptin: Next-Gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups and Optins for Lead Generation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the 'install_and_active_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-03-05T13:24:00.942Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T17:31:43.712Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-1720 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
Wpxpo
  • Wowoptin: Next-gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups And Optins For Lead Generation
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-1720.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optin/trunk/includes/utils/class-notice.php#L848 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3456826/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee0c0e29-b117-4480-b5b7-995878af8c57?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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