CVE-2026-16542

Medium CVSS 4.1

Published 2026-09-20 · last changed 2026-09-21

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2026-16542, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not validate a user-supplied URL before requesting it server-side during a CSV import, allowing high-privileged users to perform Server-Side Request Forgery attacks.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2026-16542

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