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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-16578 — The Admin Safety Guard — Login Security, Limit Logins, 2FA & Brute Force Protection WordPress plugin before 1.4.0 does not perform any capability check on one of its REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full list of registered users including the

[NVD] CVE-2026-16578 — The Admin Safety Guard — Login Security, Limit Logins, 2FA & Brute Force Protection WordPress plugin before 1.4.0 does not perform any capability check on one of its REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full list of registered users including the

mednvdPublished 2026-08-08

CVE-2026-16578 CVSS: None Published: 2026-08-08T07:17:10.573

The Admin Safety Guard — Login Security, Limit Logins, 2FA & Brute Force Protection WordPress plugin before 1.4.0 does not perform any capability check on one of its REST API endpoints, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full list of registered users including their usernames, email addresses, roles, and two-factor auth

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Email AddressesT1589.002

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2026-16578cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16578