{
  "acceptance_criteria": [
    "Affected product or dependency presence is confirmed by a human.",
    "Affected version is confirmed or marked not applicable.",
    "Official advisory or source reference is reviewed.",
    "Patch, fixed version, mitigation, workaround, or monitor-only decision is documented.",
    "Validation steps are proposed without external scanning or production mutation."
  ],
  "affected_context": {
    "component": null,
    "cpe": [],
    "ecosystems": [],
    "product": null,
    "purl": [],
    "vendor": null,
    "versions": []
  },
  "canonical_signal_url": "https://vuln.signal-radar.com/vuln/public-candidate/CVE-2026-12497/",
  "cve_id": "CVE-2026-12497",
  "generated_at": "2026-07-31T06:30:57.677712+00:00",
  "human_checklist": [
    "Confirm whether the listed product or package is present.",
    "Confirm affected version.",
    "Review vendor advisory or official source.",
    "Confirm patch, fixed version, mitigation, workaround, or monitor-only decision.",
    "Confirm exposure.",
    "Document remediation status."
  ],
  "pack_version": "remediation-handoff/0.1",
  "redaction_policy": {
    "exploit_steps_removed": true,
    "payloads_removed": true,
    "scanner_instructions_removed": true,
    "source_published_defensive_context_allowed": true
  },
  "remediation_context": {
    "fixed_versions": [],
    "mitigation_notes": [
      "Remediation reference present; patch status requires confirmation in the linked advisory.",
      "Patch status requires confirmation from the linked advisory or official source."
    ],
    "patch_status": "requires_confirmation",
    "recommended_route": "vendor_patch_or_mitigation",
    "reference_status": "official_reference_present"
  },
  "risk_context": {
    "cvss_label": "HIGH",
    "cvss_score": 7.5,
    "epss_percentile": 0.14227,
    "kev_status": "not_listed",
    "risk_flags": [
      "CVSS HIGH",
      "official reference present"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "rollback_note": "If remediation work is later performed, define a project-specific rollback plan before changing any production system.",
  "safe_agent_handoff": {
    "allowed_actions": [
      "summarize vendor guidance",
      "prepare a defensive remediation plan",
      "identify affected dependencies only when repo context is separately provided by the user",
      "suggest tests and validation steps",
      "document human verification questions"
    ],
    "auto_remediation_allowed": false,
    "disallowed_actions": [
      "generate offensive code",
      "provide payloads",
      "scan external targets",
      "change production systems",
      "merge or deploy changes",
      "create GitHub issues or pull requests without explicit separate approval"
    ],
    "external_execution_allowed": false,
    "goal": "Prepare a defensive remediation plan for CVE-2026-12497 using only provided public-safe source context and any separate repo context supplied by the user.",
    "human_approval_required": true,
    "scan_allowed": false
  },
  "safety_notes": [
    "Defensive triage and remediation planning only.",
    "No offensive procedure, payload material, external target scan, or auto-remediation instruction is included.",
    "KEV not listed means not listed in the KEV catalog for this record; it does not prove absence of exploitation."
  ],
  "source_context": {
    "references": [
      "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12497"
    ],
    "source_names": [
      "NVD",
      "Vendor Advisory"
    ],
    "source_published_impact": "This high severity issue needs human triage to confirm exposure, affected versions, and vendor guidance for high severity review.",
    "source_published_summary": "NVD: The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin before 4.16.18 does not consistently enforce the role restriction configured on its front-end registration role-selection field. NVD: The set of roles offered to the visitor and the set of roles the registration handler accepts are derived by two different parsers, and for some valid ways of configuring the offered roles the handler ignores the restriction and falls back to accepting any... NVD: Combined with the absence of a nonce on the public registration handler, this allows an unauthenticated visitor to register an account with a higher role, such as Editor or"
  }
}