Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-118101 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-118101 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-118101?
- Informational severity, published 30 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- BuddyForms before 2.10.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-118101?
- Yes: fixed in 2.10.1. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-118101 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-118101?
- Check whether you run BuddyForms at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
- Fixed in: 2.10.1
Technical details
The plugin fails to verify that a user editing an existing entry is the author of the target post, resulting in broken access control (CWE-862). Attackers with Subscriber-level form-editing permissions can modify arbitrary posts or pages via the form functionality. No authentication bypass is required—only that the attacker has been granted edit access to a form.
Affected products
- BuddyForms BuddyForms before 2.10.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-28: disclosed
- 2026-10-30: advisory