VulnerabilityPublished 31 Oct 2026

CVE-2026-11396: Product Filter for WooCommerce by WBW (WordPress plugin) · Missing Authorization

Affects Product Filter for WooCommerce by WBW (WordPress plugin)Source CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.3 Medium.

Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 07:20 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.3Medium

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CNA (Wordfence)	CVSS 3.1	5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: None: There is no loss of integrity within the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 31 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponized: A Metasploit exploit module or Exploit-DB entry exists (Metasploit scanner modules do not count), or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
woobewooProduct Filter for WooCommerce by WBW	Affected <=3.4.6	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Users should monitor the vendor's advisory channels for updates. Until a fix is available, consider restricting access to the affected AJAX action or implementing custom authorization checks to prevent unauthenticated access. Avoid exposing the 'filtersFrontend' AJAX endpoint to unauthenticated users if possible.

Description

The Product Filter for WooCommerce by WBW plugin for WordPress versions up to 3.4.6 contains a missing authorization vulnerability. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate the 'filterSettings[default_query]' parameter in the 'filtersFrontend' AJAX action, bypassing capability and nonce checks. As a result, attackers can enumerate non-public WooCommerce products, including drafts and pending items, and retrieve their count and rendered listings. The vulnerability also permits unbounded queries that can load all products in a single request.

Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can enumerate non-public WooCommerce products, including drafts, future, and pending posts, exposing potentially sensitive product information. They can also retrieve counts and rendered listing markup of these products. Additionally, attackers can force unbounded queries that may impact server performance by loading all products in a single request. The confidentiality of unpublished product data is compromised, but integrity and availability impacts are not indicated.

Summary

CVE-2026-11396 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Product Filter for WooCommerce by WBW plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.4.6. The issue arises because the AJAX handler 'wp_ajax_nopriv_filtersFrontend' does not perform any capability or nonce verification. The handler JSON-decodes raw POST data into a filterSettings array, then merges the attacker-controlled 'default_query' array into WP_Query arguments without restrictions. This allows unauthenticated attackers to override query parameters such as post_status, post_type, posts_per_page, and nopaging, enabling enumeration of non-public WooCommerce products and forcing unbounded product queries.

CWE-862Missing Authorization (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #4OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.
Architecture and Design
Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V8.3.8 (opens in a new tab)
V13.4.2 (opens in a new tab)
V7.2.2 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Exploitation of Thunderbolt Protection Flaws (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:20 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-862

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