Description
The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.16 does not authenticate or validate a bounce-processing request before fetching a user-supplied URL on the server side, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site issue requests to arbitrary internal or external hosts.
Published: 2026-08-06
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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The Newsletters WordPress plugin before 4.16 does not authenticate or validate a bounce-processing request before fetching a user-supplied URL on the server side, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site issue requests to arbitrary internal or external hosts.
Title Newsletters < 4.16 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via SNS Bounce Handler
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-06T06:00:09.742Z

Reserved: 2026-07-20T09:09:39.417Z

Link: CVE-2026-16268

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Updated: 2026-08-06T08:30:17Z

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