Authenticated persistent site crash via unvalidated theme name
Published Aug 31, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026
Denial of service in Extend Themes Kubio AI Page Builder before 2.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to crash WordPress sites. The enable-theme REST handler passes the client-supplied name directly to switch_theme(), allowing an array to corrupt the stored stylesheet and template options. High-privileged access to the endpoint is required; the malformed options reload on every request, keeping the entire site unavailable.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Extend Themes Kubio AI Page Builder before 2.9.1 allows remote authenticated users to crash WordPress sites. The enable-theme REST handler passes the client-supplied name directly to switch_theme(), allowing an array to corrupt the stored stylesheet and template options. High-privileged access to the endpoint is required; the malformed options reload on every request, keeping the entire site unavailable.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-83492
- Published
- Aug 31, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 31, 2026
- Vendor
- Extend Themes
- Product
- Kubio AI Page Builder
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Aug 31, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 31, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.9.1
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