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CVE-2026-1398: Change WP URL <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Change WP URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'change-wp-url' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the WP Login URL via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• chrisnowak Change WP URL: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-wp-url/tags/1.0/change-wp-url.php#L18
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-wp-url/tags/1.0/change-wp-url.php#L85
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-wp-url/trunk/change-wp-url.php#L18
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-wp-url/trunk/change-wp-url.php#L85
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f5dead05-5960-4ccb-89c2-c8bb0cd9c9e9?source=cve

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