CVE•Published 2026-08-29•Modified 2026-08-31•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-17520
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
4.8
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
EPSS percentile
2
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 98% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.17 does not generate its API key using a sufficiently random source, deriving it from a publicly known value, allowing unauthenticated attackers to compute the key and perform privileged actions such as adding and deleting subscribers and sending emails, when the optional API has been enabled.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-29
Modified 2026-08-31
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-2026-17520Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-17520Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-17520Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-17520GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-17520" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (5)
CVE-2026-175205 repos
asset-group/Sni5Gect-5GNR-sniffing-and-exploitationC++
A 5G Sniffer and Downlink Injector Framework on steroids... And yes, Wireshark supported!!!
Xuchen-Li/cv-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically update arXiv papers about SOT & VLT, Multi-modal Learning, LLM and Video Understanding using Github Actions.
XuzhaoLi/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers about Path Planning, LLM and Autonomous Driving using Github Actions since 2024.2.
mrhenrike/WirelessXPL-ForgePython
Wireless attack surface & lab orchestration — PCAP, Wi-Fi, BLE, AWDL, rogue AP, mesh, Bruce wardriving. pip: wirelessxpl. BSD-3-Clause.
cmivqa/ro-arxiv-dailyPython
Automatically Update Arxiv Papers Daily using Github Actions (Update Every 8th hours)
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