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.
Published:
2026-08-06
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
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| Unknown | Newsletters | unaffected |
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History
Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| Title | Newsletters < 4.16 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via SNS Bounce Handler | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-06T06:00:09.742Z
Reserved: 2026-07-20T09:09:39.417Z
Link: CVE-2026-16268
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