CVE•Published 2026-08-03•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16300
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
23
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 77% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The ChamaWP WordPress plugin before 1.0.13 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 2026-08-03
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-2026-16300Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16300Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16300Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16300GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16300" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (4)
CVE-2026-163004 repos
Xuchen-Li/cv-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically update arXiv papers about SOT & VLT, Multi-modal Learning, LLM and Video Understanding using Github Actions.
timoguin/starsunknown
My starred repositories
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 …
NiNiyas/awesome-starsunknown
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