CVE-2026-84023: Unknown Bear

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BEAR WordPress plugin before 1.2.2 does not verify a CSRF nonce or check user capabilities before updating taxonomy terms, allowing an attacker to modify arbitrary terms by tricking a logged-in privileged user into visiting a crafted page.

Affected products

• Unknown Bear: before 1.2.2 (fixed in 1.2.2)

Published 2026-09-12. Last modified 2026-09-14.