{"id":"CVE-2026-16542","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-16542","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:21:19.277Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-09-20T07:16:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-21T13:34:57.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-918"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00299,"percentile":0.22398,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-20","score":0.00132,"percentile":0.03154}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-09-20T14:30:04.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"4.1","severity":"MEDIUM","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 4.1 MEDIUM."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-20T07:16:49.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-09-20T07:16:49.467Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f57577b2-3031-433a-a3e1-758d12b244d1/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16542","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."}