CVE-2026-9616 PUBLISHED

Generate Security.txt <= 1.0.12 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Security.txt Deletion via delete_securitytxt AJAX Action

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 26.05.2026 Published: 24.06.2026 Updated: 24.06.2026

The Generate Security.txt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.12. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete the site's security.txt file from the server filesystem or create the .well-known directory by directly invoking the delete_securitytxt or create_wellknown_folder AJAX actions.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor verenigingvanregistrars
Product Generate Security.txt
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.0.12 (incl.)

Credits

  • Benedictus Jovan finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE