verenigingvanregistrars Generate Security.txt Plugin up to 1.0.12 on WordPress AJAX Action authorization

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in verenigingvanregistrars Generate Security.txt Plugin up to 1.0.12 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component AJAX Action Handler. Such manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-9616. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in verenigingvanregistrars Generate Security.txt Plugin up to 1.0.12 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component AJAX Action Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Generate Security.txt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.12. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete the site's security.txt file from the server filesystem or create the .well-known directory by directly invoking the delete_securitytxt or create_wellknown_folder AJAX actions.

The weakness was released by Benedictus Jovan. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-9616 since 05/26/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.0.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• verenigingvanregistrars

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• Generate Security.txt Plugin

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12

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