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Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-15413

CVE-2026-15413

Unknown Link Factory — Link Factory - Backdoor

EPSS 0.5%CVSS 10.0
critical.is priorityof 100
39
CVSS 10.0 (CNA)10.0 / 10 × 3030.0Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 44.3.443 × 208.9No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

The Link Factory WordPress plugin is a backdoor. Distributed as a "homepage sentence publisher", it exposes an operator-controlled REST API under /wp-json/link-factory/v1/ - authenticated by a detached Ed25519 signature verified against a hardcoded operator public key (except for the health check).

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Link Factory≤ *–CNA

Scores by source

WPScan (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

exploitwpscan.com/vulnerability/4cad269d-0146-4ca9-a1ae-55f02c8e5433