{"id":"CVE-2026-82842","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-82842","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:21:47.704Z","title":"The SAML Single Sign On WordPress plugin before 6.0.0 does not honour the configured criterion for linking an incoming single sign-on identity to a WordPress account, always resolving the identity by login name whatever the site has chosen, which allows…","description":"The SAML Single Sign On  WordPress plugin before 6.0.0 does not honour the configured criterion for linking an incoming single sign-on identity to a WordPress account, always resolving the identity by login name whatever the site has chosen, which allows an attacker who can have the site's identity provider assert a login name of their choosing to authenticate as any account, including an administrator, without proving ownership of that account.","published":"2026-09-20T07:16:50.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-21T13:34:57.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00373,"percentile":0.31036,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-20","score":0.00132,"percentile":0.03153}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-09-20T14:30:04.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"8.1","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 8.1 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-20T07:16:50.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-09-20T07:16:50.093Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4ae66b2c-a0de-405f-baca-127302257540/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82842","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}