CVE-2026-87828: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Seraphinite Accelerator
The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.29.24 does not perform a capability check on one of its state-update AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users such as subscribers to write a malformed value that causes an uncaught error on every subsequent admin page load, making the entire admin area inaccessible to all administrators (denial of service).
CVE-2026-87828: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Seraphinite Accelerator
Description
The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.29.24 does not perform a capability check on one of its state-update AJAX actions, allowing authenticated users such as subscribers to write a malformed value that causes an uncaught error on every subsequent admin page load, making the entire admin area inaccessible to all administrators (denial of service).
Affected software
Seraphinite Accelerator
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Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- WPScan
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-09T10:49:14.573Z
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6aaa32e455bf5e2cf517fb49
Added to database: 09/16/2026, 06:10:44 UTC
Last updated: 09/16/2026, 06:10:44 UTC
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