CVE-2026-16264

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Assigned by CNA: wpscan

Published 2026-09-23 · Modified 2026-09-23

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.18.1 does not perform an ownership check on some of its subscriber management actions, and issues a management session to unauthenticated visitors on request, allowing attackers to read any subscriber's personal data and overwrite any subscriber's record including their email address.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0dd1de2d-e9bb-4c42-a78b-2643d43dfed6/

CWEs

CWE-639

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.