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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2026-16542

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not validate a user-supplied URL before requesting it server-side during a CSV import, allowing high-privileged users to perform Server-Side Request Forgery attacks.

MEDIUM 4.1EPSS 0.30%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not validate a user-supplied URL before requesting it server-side during a CSV import, allowing high-privileged users to perform Server-Side Request Forgery attacks.

CVSS 3.1
4.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.30% probability · 22th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-918
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%20 September 2026: 0.13%26 October 2026: 0.30%20 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.1% on 20 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.