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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-17520 (MEDIUM 4.8) — 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

[NVD] CVE-2026-17520 (MEDIUM 4.8) — 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

mednvdPublished 2026-08-29

CVE-2026-17520 CVSS: 4.8 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-29T06:17:12.177

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 enab

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17520