CVE•Published 2026-08-03•Modified 2026-08-26•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-16534
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS percentile
14
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 86% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator account and to overwrite an existing administrator's password or email.
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-2026-16534Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-16534Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-16534Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-16534GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-16534" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.