CVE-2026-18356

low

Assigned by CNA: wpscan

Published 2026-08-21 · Modified 2026-08-21

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CVSS v3

3.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.7

Description

The Limit Login Attempts Reloaded WordPress plugin before 3.3.5 does not compare logins against its username denylist case-insensitively and does not account for the account's email address, allowing an account an administrator intended to block from logging in to authenticate anyway.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

47%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fbcf5a9a-f204-49b8-aa80-748a8a7b5245/

CWEs

CWE-184

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.