CVE-2026-115225

Customer Engagement System – Popup Builder, Forms, CRM & Email Marketing Automation < 2.0.2 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery

2026-10-28 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.0.2
Affected Plugin: Customer Engagement System – Popup Builder, Forms, CRM & Email Marketing Automation
Affected Version: < 2.0.2
CVSS: 7.2High
Weakness type: CWE-918 · Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CVE: CVE-2026-115225

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At a glance

CVE-2026-115225 is a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the Customer Engagement System WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.0.2. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2026, reported by Karthik Ramakrishnan.

Vulnerability Overview

The Customer Engagement System – Popup Builder, Forms, CRM & Email Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to 2.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application which can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Customer Engagement System < 2.0.2 takes no account at all. Server-side request forgery means the application fetches a URL supplied by the caller, turning the server into a proxy for requests the attacker could not make directly.

The request originates from inside the hosting network, which is how these flaws reach cloud metadata endpoints, internal admin panels and services that trust local traffic. For Customer Engagement System the fix is 2.0.2: builds < 2.0.2 are affected, anything from 2.0.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.0.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Customer Engagement System 2.0.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-115225 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8c5fc64f-4a4c-4a23-a72f-9ba9fa7ab6b0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115225

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CVSS Vector

7.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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