CVE-2026-32441
Published: 25 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-32441 is a high-severity Missing Authorization (CWE-862) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 11.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly enforces approved authorizations to prevent low-privilege authenticated users from exploiting missing authorization checks in the plugin.
Applies least privilege to ensure low-privilege users cannot perform high-impact denial-of-service actions enabled by the vulnerability.
Limits the effects of denial-of-service conditions resulting from the scope-changing availability impact of the missing authorization flaw.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Broken access control (CWE-862) in public-facing WordPress plugin allows low-privileged remote authenticated users to trigger resource exhaustion/DoS; directly enables T1190 for initial exploitation of the exposed application and T1499.004 for achieving availability impact via application-level exploitation.
NVD Description
Missing Authorization vulnerability in WebToffee Comments Import & Export comments-import-export-woocommerce allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Comments Import & Export: from n/a through <= 2.4.9.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-32441 is a missing authorization vulnerability, classified under CWE-862, in the WebToffee Comments Import & Export plugin (comments-import-export-woocommerce) for WordPress. The flaw enables exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels and affects all versions of the plugin up to and including 2.4.9.
Attackers with low privileges, such as authenticated users, can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. The CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.7 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H) indicates a high availability impact with a changed scope, potentially allowing denial-of-service conditions.
Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/comments-import-export-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-comments-import-export-plugin-2-4-9-broken-access-control-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.
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