# CVE-2026-83259: Oracle Commerce Guided Search access control weakness in Forge

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-83259-oracle-commerce-guided-search-access-control-weakness-in-forge  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-15. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-83259 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.1 · Published 2026-09-15

Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Oracle Commerce Experience Manager, which power online shopping experiences, contain an access control vulnerability in their Forge component that allows low-privileged attackers to access sensitive customer and product data. An attacker can view critical business data or disrupt service availability, potentially exposing customer information and impacting e-commerce operations.

Technologies: [Oracle Commerce Experience Manager](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/commerce-experience-manager), [Oracle Commerce Guided Search](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/commerce-guided-search). Vendors: [Oracle](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/oracle).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-83259 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-83259 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-83259?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.1, published 15 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0; Oracle Commerce Guided Search 11.4.0.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-83259?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**How is CVE-2026-83259 attacked?** It is attacked over the network.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-83259?** Check whether you run Oracle Commerce Experience Manager or Oracle Commerce Guided Search 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.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is an access control weakness in the Forge component of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager version 11.4.0. It requires low privilege access and network reachability via HTTP, with no user interaction needed. An unauthenticated or low-privileged attacker can exploit this to read unauthorized data or cause partial denial of service. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L) indicates the attack requires low privileges and network access but is otherwise straightforward to execute. Patch availability was not disclosed in the advisory reference materials.

## Affected products

- Oracle Commerce Guided Search 11.4.0
- Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0

## Timeline

- 2026-09-15: disclosed: Public disclosure via Oracle security alert and NVD

## References

- [https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html](https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html)

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