CVE-2026-12685: high-severity vulnerability in escortwp
EscortWP <= 3.6.2 - Content Deletion via Vendor-Authored Backdoor
Published
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.5epss 0.4%
The EscortWP escortwp WordPress theme through 3.6.2 was distributed with a vendor-authored, obfuscated backdoor that lets an unauthenticated attacker who supplies a hard-coded, per-build key permanently delete all of the site's content, and that covertly transmits the site URL, administrator email address, and license key to a third-party server.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Unknown · escortwppublic PoCs found — 1
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