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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2026-16264

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…

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.27%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.27% probability · 18th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-639
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%23 September 2026: 0.18%26 October 2026: 0.27%23 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.2% on 23 September 2026 to 0.3% on 26 October 2026.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.