CVE-2026-19883
Description
The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the wpematico_import_settings function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.24. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access.
Predictions
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.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://github.com/etruel/wpematico/commit/e297f41b49c6ec76635b006dff8a964a99a1ed24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.23/app/tools_page.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.23/app/wpematico_functions.php#L2077
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.23/app/wpematico_functions.php#L2096
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.23/wpematico_class.php#L59
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.24/app/tools_page.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.24/app/wpematico_functions.php#L2077
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.24/app/wpematico_functions.php#L2096
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpematico/tags/2.8.24/wpematico_class.php#L59
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e591cb4-058d-4d8e-948e-d65ab01db618?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-269
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.