{"id":"CVE-2026-85642","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-85642","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:51:07.250Z","title":"The Formidable Forms WordPress plugin before 7.0 does not verify the identity of the caller before recording the timestamp it uses to rate limit payment gateway verification requests, allowing unauthenticated attackers to consume the daily allowance and…","description":"The Formidable Forms  WordPress plugin before 7.0 does not verify the identity of the caller before recording the timestamp it uses to rate limit payment gateway verification requests, allowing unauthenticated attackers to consume the daily allowance and cause legitimate verification attempts to be refused for the next 24 hours.","published":"2026-10-21T06:16:50.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T18:37:39.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00392,"percentile":0.33105,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-21","score":0.00152,"percentile":0.04041}]},"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 (0.39%). 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":"2026-10-21T13:15:08.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"7.5","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 7.5 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-21T06:16:50.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-21T06:16:50.190Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.5)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6bdc69fa-7db1-4790-9147-30ebd03580b0/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85642","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."}