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CVE-2026-9732: EmergencyWP <= 1.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-03 · updated 2026-07-22
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The EmergencyWP – Dead Man's switch & legacy deliverance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the form_settings_ui (settings save handler, procedural include scope) function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings including the minimum access role (altering WordPress role capabilities via add_cap/remove_cap), the data-erasure-on-uninstall flag, life-check timing values, the mandator email address, the confirmation page ID, and date/time formats via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• planetshaker EmergencyWP – Dead Man's switch & legacy deliverance: through 1.4.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emergencywp/tags/1.4.2/pages/emergencywp/setting_tabs/settings_main.php#L17
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emergencywp/tags/1.4.2/pages/emergencywp/setting_tabs/settings_main.php#L217
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emergencywp/tags/1.4.2/pages/emergencywp/setting_tabs/settings_main.php#L79
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6013f592-4cff-4b94-968d-6f66e84368d0?source=cve

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