Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain contributor-level account
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DeliveryEnumerate other users' campaign IDs
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ExploitRequest campaign config/run-log endpoint
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ExecutionServer skips ownership check
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ImpactRead admins' campaign settings and execution logs
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated WordPress account at contributor role or higher on a site running WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher before 2.8.26; no user interaction and no non-default configuration are needed beyond the plugin being active and campaigns existing. Exploitation is LIMITED by the need for at least contributor access (so sites without open registration or untrusted low-privilege authors face little exposure) and by the impact being read-only disclosure of campaign configuration and run logs - no modification or denial of service. The exposed data is other users' RSS campaign settings and execution logs, which is low-sensitivity, bounding the practical impact. |
| Impact | This is a low-severity information-disclosure issue that is NOT a real prioritization concern. All signals align on low urgency: the CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N, base 2.7) rates only Low confidentiality impact with no integrity or availability impact; EPSS is not provided; the CVE is NOT in CISA KEV; and SSVC scores Exploitation=none, Automatable=no, Technical Impact=partial - a 'Track' (not 'Act') disposition. The one elevating signal is a publicly available WPScan exploit, but POC availability is distinct from active exploitation and SSVC still records Exploitation=none. NOTE A CONFLICT: the vendor CVSS uses PR:H, yet the description explicitly says exploitation only requires 'contributor-level access and above.' Contributor is a low-privilege editorial role in WordPress, so PR:H appears overstated; PR:L is more defensible, which would raise the base score to ~4.3 but keep it firmly Medium/Low. Net: real-world risk is low - a self-registered or low-trust contributor can read (not alter) other users' RSS campaign settings and run logs. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who holds or obtains a contributor account on a WordPress site running WPeMatico (e.g. via open registration or a guest-author arrangement) calls the plugin's campaign configuration/run-log retrieval endpoint using another user's campaign ID. Because the plugin never checks ownership, it returns the full stored configuration and execution logs of campaigns owned by other users, including administrators. A public WPScan exploit reference exists, and the attack is a single authenticated request requiring no user interaction. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 24, 2026
Authenticated information disclosure in the WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.26 lets any account with contributor-level access or higher read the stored campaign configuration and execution logs belonging to other users, including administrators. The endpoint returns campaign objects without verifying ownership or authorization (CWE-639), so a low-privilege author can enumerate campaign identifiers and retrieve settings and run logs they should never see; the effect is read-only, with no modification, privilege escalation, or denial of service. Publicly available exploit code exists (referenced by WPScan), but CISA's SSVC assessment records no observed exploitation and rates the issue as non-automatable with partial technical impact - consistent with our independent assessment that this is a low-severity information-disclosure issue and not a real prioritization concern.
RemediationAI
Update the WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher plugin to version 2.8.26 or later - the vendor-released patched version that adds the missing ownership check - and confirm the update through the WordPress plugin dashboard or WP-CLI; the fix is available per vendor and requires no configuration change after installation. Because exploitation requires an authenticated account at contributor level or above, the most effective compensating control where immediate patching is not possible is to tighten account provisioning: disable open user registration, audit and remove dormant contributor-and-above accounts, and downgrade untrusted authors to lower roles, accepting that this reduces editorial throughput on multi-author sites without fully eliminating the risk if any contributor account remains. Administrators on sites that must keep contributor accounts active can temporarily deactivate the plugin, which stops feed fetching and publishing entirely - a disruptive trade-off that may break scheduled content ingestion, so schedule it against the campaign calendar. Since the vulnerability is read-only, no integrity or availability remediation is required, but consider reviewing web server and plugin logs for bulk or sequential campaign-identifier requests from low-privilege sessions to gauge whether configuration and run-log data was already harvested. Advisory details are at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1568f9e4-defe-423a-a631-e0afd829b972/ and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89004.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a classic object-level authorization failure, classified as CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key). WPeMatico stores each RSS feed campaign as a WordPress object addressed by a predictable identifier, and the handler that returns a campaign's saved configuration plus its run log does not confirm that the requesting user owns - or is otherwise entitled to - that object. WordPress plugins frequently rely on role and capability checks performed at the menu or page level while leaving the underlying AJAX/REST handler callable directly, which is what happens here: the capability gate is satisfied by contributor-level access, but the per-object ownership check is absent. The CPE entry (cpe:2.3:a:unknown:wpematico_rss_feed_fetcher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) reflects an incomplete vendor mapping rather than a different product, and ENISA EUVD-2026-85806 lists the affected range as WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher 0 through versions below 2.8.26. The disclosed data - other users' feed source URLs, campaign scheduling and filtering configuration, and execution logs - is low-sensitivity operational metadata, which bounds the practical impact of the bug.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Description says contributor-level suffices, so PR:L (not vendor PR:H); network single-request access is AC:L/UI:N, and impact is read-only low-sensitivity disclosure so C:L/I:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.26 does not verify ownership or authorization before returning a campaign's stored configuration and run log, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to read the configuration and execution logs of campaigns created by other users, including administrators.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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