CVE-2026-16268

Published: Aug 6, 2026Modified: Aug 26, 2026Deferred

8.2

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 4.2

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.16 does not authenticate or validate a bounce-processing request before fetching a user-supplied URL on the server side, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site issue requests to arbitrary internal or external hosts.

Related CWEs

CWE-918

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/65612dd4-83d8-40c5-8e12-862e9b5f940b/

Source: contact@wpscan.com

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