{"id":"CVE-2026-87828","title":"The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.29.24 does not perform a capability check on one of its state-update AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users such as subscribers to write a malformed value that causes an uncaught …","summary":"The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.29.24 does not perform a capability check on one of its state-update AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users such as subscribers to write a malformed value that causes an uncaught …","severity":"medium","cvss":5.7,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-400"],"product":"Seraphinite Accelerator","affected":["seraphinite_accelerator < 2.29.24"],"published":"2026-09-16","updated":"2026-09-17","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-17T13:16:56.040","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-87828","references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ce546b34-4383-4166-9b87-335a524f37e2/","label":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-09-17T12:17:15.995799Z"},"epss":0.00242,"epssPercentile":0.15627,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-16T06:51:06.255Z","slug":"CVE-2026-87828","body":"## Overview\n\nThe Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.29.24 does not perform a capability check on one of its state-update AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users such as subscribers to write a malformed value that causes an uncaught error on every subsequent admin page load, making the entire admin area inaccessible to all administrators (denial of service).\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":31,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":31.4,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":206016,"id":"CVE-2026-87828","ts":1789651142404,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"5.7"},{"seq":206015,"id":"CVE-2026-87828","ts":1789651142404,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}