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.
Published: 2026-09-23
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Newsletters < 4.18.1 - Unauthenticated Subscriber Record Overwrite and PII Disclosure via IDOR
Weaknesses CWE-639
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

No data.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-23T11:01:05.173Z

Reserved: 2026-07-20T08:42:08.802Z

Link: CVE-2026-16264

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-23T10:39:39.682Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-23T06:17:00.963

Modified: 2026-09-23T11:17:09.977

Link: CVE-2026-16264

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-23T14:15:06Z

Weaknesses