Frontend Admin WordPress unauthenticated admin takeover
Direct answer
Frontend Admin WordPress unauthenticated admin takeover, also tracked as CVE-2026-18432 is a critical-severity threat campaign HOL Guard tracked from Aug 19, 2026 to Aug 19, 2026, verified against 2 primary sources and last reviewed Sep 20, 2026. Active tracking has ended and the record remains published as a permanent historical research record.
Frontend Admin for WordPress allows unauthenticated admin takeover on affected versions. Patch or remove promptly.
Also tracked as CVE-2026-18432
- First observed
- Aug 19, 2026
- Last observed
- Aug 19, 2026
- Last reviewed
- Sep 20, 2026
- Tracking ended
- Aug 19, 2026
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Uncertainty and limitations
Read the evidence limits before acting on this record.
Confirm fixed plugin version against the live advisory.
- Exact fixed versions must come from upstream advisory.
- HOL blog is operator guidance.
Guard coverage and policy
What Guard's reviewed assertions do and do not claim for this campaign, and the reviewed starting points for defense.
No Guard coverage mapping or campaign-specific policy guidance is published for this record.
Safe next step. Campaign guidance is defensive context. It does not auto-apply policy or claim universal campaign coverage.
Timeline
Reviewed events, oldest first, each tied to a verified source.
- Disclosure
CVE-2026-18432 Frontend Admin WordPress unauth admin takeover disclosed.
Source:NVD CVE-2026-18432
Publication clock: 787.2 hours from reviewed disclosure timestamp to HOL publication; 12-hour critical target; historical backfill outside target.
Sources
Every claim on this record is traceable to the sources below.
Campaign questions, answered
Frontend Admin for WordPress allows unauthenticated admin takeover on affected versions. Patch or remove promptly. HOL Guard tracked the campaign from Aug 19, 2026 to Aug 19, 2026.
No. Active tracking ended Aug 19, 2026; this page remains as a labeled historical research record and does not imply the threat is currently active.
The record cites 2 primary sources, names 0 reviewed artifacts, and was last fully reviewed Sep 20, 2026 by HOL Guard Security Publishing. Its uncertainty and limitations are stated on the record itself.
Campaign guidance is defensive context. It does not auto-apply policy or claim universal campaign coverage.
The permalink above is permanent. The full record can be downloaded from this page as JSON, an artifact CSV, and a STIX 2.1 bundle, and corrections can be requested through the published correction path on the record. Confirm fixed plugin version against the live advisory.
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Record HGTC-2026-85A8C5CB