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SoftMarket <= 1.0.0 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover

CVE-2026-14557Published Jul 24, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Affected: ≤1.0.0No patch available

What to do until a fix ships

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Severity

Critical9.8

CVSS

9.8

CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What does this vector mean?

AV:N Attack vector: Network
AC:L Attack complexity: Low
PR:N Privileges required: None
UI:N User interaction: None
S:U Scope: Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality: High
I:H Integrity: High
A:H Availability: High

Weakness

CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

Required access

No account needed

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

No score

CISA KEV

Not listed

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Am I affected?

SoftMarket — Digital Marketplace softmarket

Affected≤ 1.0.0
PatchedNo fix yet

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.0. No fixed version has been released.

Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under SoftMarket — Digital Marketplace.
No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
Watch SoftMarket — Digital Marketplace to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Pedro Pinho.

The SoftMarket — Digital Marketplace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to verifying their email. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as arbitrary users, including administrators.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

Jul 24, 2026
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Nov 13, 2026
Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record

Vulnerability data: Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE: National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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