What is CVE-2026-90965?

CVE-2026-90965 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Real Estate, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-11-05.

How severe is CVE-2026-90965?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Essential Real Estate

CVE-2026-90965

The Essential Real Estate WordPress plugin before 5.3.5 does not perform a publication-status or authorization check in two of its AJAX actions, allowing unauthenticated users to retrieve the images attached to property listings that have not been published.

Published 2026-11-05 · last modified 2026-11-06.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (9.0th percentile), scored 2026-11-09.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 9th percentile — 9.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

The 30-day trend appears once there are two daily scores.

Affected products

Essential Real Estate

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/d53035c9-0f84-4c86-8c0e-fe2bca2d0a4d/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-90965?: CVE-2026-90965 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Essential Real Estate, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-11-05.
How severe is CVE-2026-90965?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.