CVE-2026-17520: medium-severity vulnerability in Newsletters
Newsletters < 4.17 - Unauthenticated API Access via Predictable API Key
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33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 4.8epss 0.2%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Affected products
Unknown · Newsletterspublic PoCs found — 1
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