CVE-2026-2284

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Description

The News Element Elementor Blog Magazine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to a missing capability check and nonce verification on the 'ne_clean_data' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to truncate 8 core WordPress database tables (posts, comments, terms, term_relationships, term_taxonomy, postmeta, commentmeta, termmeta) and delete the entire WordPress uploads directory, resulting in complete data loss.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e5d81318-c9da-4626-acfa-f092d2ce5fe9?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/trunk/admin/inc/dash.php#L206

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/tags/1.0.8/admin/inc/dash.php#L206

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-19

Updated: 2026-02-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00034