CVE-2026-115214

Datawiza Proxy Auth Plugin 1.1.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via X-User and Role Headers

At a glance

Severity: CRITICAL 9.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-10-25
Updated: 2026-10-26
Assigner: WPScan
NVD status: Deferred

Description

The Datawiza Proxy Auth Plugin WordPress plugin before 1.1.1 does not verify that the user-identity and role HTTP request headers it trusts originate from a trusted reverse proxy, allowing unauthenticated attackers to create and authenticate as a WordPress administrator.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-109352
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-115214

Affected products

Product	Versions
Unknown · Datawiza Proxy Auth Plugin	affected 1.1.0 < 1.1.1

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2c6c7d10-2281-4a98-a0d6-769da5cce416/

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD