{"id":"CVE-2026-16534","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-16534","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:22:59.878Z","title":"The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator…","description":"The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator account and to overwrite an existing administrator's password or email.","published":"2026-08-03T07:16:42.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-26T16:31:17.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00404,"percentile":0.34461,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d1246a0-3cd1-4b6d-bd3e-6ed89745da26/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16534","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}