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Description

The WowOptin: Next-Gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups and Optins for Lead Generation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the 'install_and_active_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-30 | Published 2026-03-05 | Updated 2026-03-05 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2026-02-08:Vendor Notified
2026-03-04:Disclosed

Credits

Itthidej Aramsri finder

Waris Damkham finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-b117-4480-b5b7-995878af8c57?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ncludes/utils/class-notice.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3456826/

cve.org (CVE-2026-1720)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-1720)

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