CVE-2026-12255 — MainWP Child < 6.1.2 - Unauthenticated Administrator Authentication Bypass via Passwordless Site Registration

CVE-2026-12255

MainWP Child < 6.1.2 - Unauthenticated Administrator Authentication Bypass via Passwordless Site Registration PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The MainWP Child WordPress plugin before 6.1.2 does not verify the requester's identity in its site-registration request handler when password authentication has been disabled for the targeted account, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to obtain a valid authentication session as that account, including an administrator, by naming its login in a single registration request.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Unknown / MainWP Child	affected 0 before 6.1.2

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ecd37bf-f48a-4f7f-8a93-e7f0475371af/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.