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CVE-2026-16534

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator account and to overwrite an existing administrator's password or email.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:5857dbb69878f5512fc2a64870ce626ae3ddac46004f0a0aeab1613107927cd1
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

{"description":"CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Import and export users and customers","vendor":"Unknown","versions":[{"lessThan":"2.4.2","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":9.1,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/adp/0/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/adp/0/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
{"description":"CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion
{"tags":["exploit","vdb-entry","technical-description"],"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d1246a0-3cd1-4b6d-bd3e-6ed89745da26/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:4277c8e60d8d8d79061d104b768e2b264ba72959cbbd06c9f6e53493184d4b2e · sha256:732e9be80265fc87… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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