CVE-2026-18466: Unknown Wp Maps

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.8 does not perform a capability check, nor validate a nonce, in one of its AJAX actions, allowing users with a Subscriber account to create an unlimited number of options in the database, each of which is loaded on every page request.

Affected products

• Unknown Wp Maps: before 4.9.8 (fixed in 4.9.8)

Published 2026-08-19. Last modified 2026-08-26.