CVE-2026-17520

medium

Description

The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.17 does not generate its API key using a sufficiently random source, deriving it from a publicly known value, allowing unauthenticated attackers to compute the key and perform privileged actions such as adding and deleting subscribers and sending emails, when the optional API has been enabled.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5a719e6b-22e1-4950-bf17-cd92e2ea6685/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-29

Updated: 2026-08-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.001