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IDENTITY The Hacker News CVE-2026-61979 ↗

Attackers Target miniOrange SAML Flaws That Can Grant WordPress Admin Access

Aug 25, 2026, 08:34 AM · by The Hacker News

Authoritative NVD/CISA vulnerability data (read-only)

Bad actors are attempting to exploit two severe unauthenticated authentication bypasses in the Xecurify miniOrange SAML 2.0 Single Sign On plugin that make it possible for an attacker to sign in as any WordPress user, including administrators.

The vulnerabilities, as disclosed by Patchstack, are listed below -

CVE-2026-61979 (CVSS score: 8.1) - An unauthenticated privilege escalation

Source: The Hacker News