THREAT OPS › Threat 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
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
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-17520cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17520