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High CVSS 8.2

CVE-2026-16268

NVD analysis in progress

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.

What this means

Exposure
Exploitable remotely over the network, without authentication and with no action from the victim.
Impact
An attacker can read some data and modify or destroy data.
Weakness
The server issues a request to an attacker-chosen address, reaching into the internal network (SSRF).
Likelihood
Its EPSS score stays low: nothing points to imminent exploitation, which is no reason to leave it unpatched.

What to doFold into the next patch cycle. Start with the instances exposed to the internet.

Read automatically from the CVSS vector, the weakness type (CWE) and the EPSS score. The technical description above remains the one published by NIST.

Published
6 August 2026
CVSS
8.2 (v3.1) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS
0.44% probability of exploitation within 30 days · above 37% of all CVEs
Weakness
CWE-918
Sources
nvd
References

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