CVE•Published 2026-08-06•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16268
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
37
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 63% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.16 does not authenticate or validate a bounce-processing request before fetching a user-supplied URL on the server side, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site issue requests to arbitrary internal or external hosts.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-06
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-2026-16268Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16268Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16268Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16268GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16268" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.