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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-80099"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-09T08:28:22.335Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-09T16:02:13.368Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80099"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80099.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80099"
title: "Various Newfold Plugins Various Versions - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Bearer Token Validation with Empty Secret"
summary: "Several Newfold plugins are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. The vulnerability exists because the plugins bundle the wp-module-data module. In the module, the `authenticate()` method — registered on the `rest_authentication_errors` filter and therefore evaluated for every unauthenticated REST API request — performs an HMAC-style Bearer token comparison that degenerates when `HiiveConnection::get_auth_token()` returns `false`: PHP coerces `strrev(false)` to `strrev('')`, collapsing the secret salt to the publicly known constant `hash('sha256', '') = e3b0c44...`, while all remaining hash inputs (HTTP method, request URL, raw request body, and the `X-Timestamp` header) remain fully attacker-controlled. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to compute a valid Bearer token entirely offline, pass the token equality check, and have `wp_set_current_user()` invoked against the first administrator returned by `get_users(['role' =\u003e 'administrator'])`, granting full administrator-level access and enabling arbitrary REST API operations such as creating new administrator accounts and achieving complete site takeover. Vulnerable versions are WP Plugin Crazy Domains (\u003c= 2.5.2), WP Plugin Web (\u003c= 2.3.4), WP Plugin Hostgator (\u003c= 3.1.0), WP Plugin Bluehost (\u003c= 4.17.1). The affected module is vulnerable in versions up to, and including, 2.9.4."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.3.5"}],"vendor":"Newfold","product":"WP Plugin Web","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.5.2"}],"vendor":"Newfold","product":"WP Plugin Crazy Domains","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.9.7"}],"vendor":"Newfold","product":"WP Module Data","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"3.2.0"}],"vendor":"Newfold","product":"WP Plugin Hostgator","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.0"}],"vendor":"Newfold","product":"WP Plugin Bluehost","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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