MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-82842 (CVSS 8.1)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 20, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.1%
The SAML Single Sign On WordPress plugin before 6.0.0 does not honour the configured criterion for linking an incoming single sign-on identity to a WordPress account, always resolving the identity by login name whatever the site has chosen, which allows an attacker who can have the site's identity provider assert a login name of their choosing to authenticate as any account, including an administrator, without proving ownership of that account.
Technical details
CVSS
8.1
AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High
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