CVE-2026-16534

critical · 9.1

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.

9.1

CVSS

0.2%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

14th

EPSS percentile

2026-08-03

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-269

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d1246a0-3cd1-4b6d-bd3e-6ed89745da26/

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-16534