High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 5, 2026· Updated Apr 22, 2026

CVE-2026-1720

Description

The WowOptin: Next-Gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups and Optins for Lead Generation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary plugin installation due to a missing capability check on the 'install_and_active_plugin' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.

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Affected products

WowOptin/Next-Gen Popup Maker – Create Stunning Popups and Optins for Lead Generationllm-create
Range: <=1.4.24
WordPress/Next-Gen Popup Makerwp-canonicalize

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/optin/trunk/includes/utils/class-notice.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3456826/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee0c0e29-b117-4480-b5b7-995878af8c57nvd

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