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WordPress Newsletters plugin <= 4.18.2 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

9.6CriticalCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
0.18% · 7th percentile
22/100
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
On X
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  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress, developed by Tribulant Software, is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker could trick a logged-in administrator into unknowingly performing actions on the site, such as changing plugin settings, by getting them to visit a malicious web page.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from the sources below. Verify against them.

Read the original description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Tribulant Software Newsletters newsletters-lite allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Newsletters: from n/a through 4.18.2.

cve.now Index

22cve.now Index 22 of 100 · methodology v3
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure7/25Reachable over the network without a login · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity10/10CVSS 9.6, total technical impact per CISA
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 77 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 72 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 37 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. Posted on X by cve.now2 days
  4. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  5. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • newsletters-lite

    through 4.18.2

Evidence 1

  1. Link

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about CVE-2026-116863

Is CVE-2026-116863 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116863?

newsletters-lite: through 4.18.2.Source: cve.now feed data