What is CVE-2026-96255?

CVE-2026-96255 is a high-severity vulnerability in Payments For Hubtel, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-10-01.

How severe is CVE-2026-96255?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Payments For Hubtel

CVE-2026-96255

The Payments for Hubtel WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not prevent public access to a debug log in which it records payment requests, including the store's payment gateway API credentials in plain text, allowing unauthenticated attackers to obtain those credentials.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2026-10-01 · last modified 2026-10-01.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Payments For Hubtel

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/726daec6-5e18-4ee1-9b97-3931f7f81c3c/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-96255?: CVE-2026-96255 is a high-severity vulnerability in Payments For Hubtel, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-10-01.
How severe is CVE-2026-96255?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.