CVE•Published 2026-08-10•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16299
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
27
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 73% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Single Sign On For TNG WordPress plugin before 2.2.0 does not properly validate a password reset request, allowing unauthenticated attackers to reset the password of arbitrary users, including administrators, which could lead to a full site takeover.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-10
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-2026-16299Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16299Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16299Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16299GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16299" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (4)
CVE-2026-162994 repos
maxgfr/awesome-starsunknown
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exploitintel/eip-pocs-and-cvesC
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svg153/awesome-starsJavaScript
jaschadub/compromised-packages-checkPython
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