CVE-2026-87959: Unknown Wpbot

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WPBot WordPress plugin before 8.7.6 does not perform a capability check on the AJAX action that saves its Claude AI provider settings, allowing users with subscriber-level access to overwrite those settings, including the API key used for the WPBot WordPress plugin before 8.7.6's outgoing AI requests.

Affected products

• Unknown Wpbot: from 8.7.2, before 8.7.6 (fixed in 8.7.6)

Published 2026-09-16. Last modified 2026-09-17.