CVE•Published 2026-08-07•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16258
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
39
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 61% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.14.5 does not prevent the deserialization of untrusted input, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform PHP Object Injection. When a suitable POP chain is present via another installed Ajax Search Lite WordPress plugin before 4.14.5 or , this can be leveraged to achieve Remote Code Execution.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-07
Modified 2026-08-26
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-16258Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16258Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16258Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16258GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16258" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (2)
CVE-2026-162582 repos
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jaschadub/compromised-packages-checkPython
Scan a repository for known-malicious npm, cratres, and PyPI package versions from recent supply-chain compromises (Mini Shai-Hulud, TanStack, @cap-js/mbt, etc). UPDATED 6 TIMES A …