CVE-2026-89001 (GCVE-0-2026-89001)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-27 06:00 – Updated: 2026-09-27 06:00
VLAI
Title
WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher < 2.8.27 - Contributor+ Post Publication and Author Spoofing via Campaign Settings
Summary
The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.27 does not verify that a user running a feed campaign is permitted to publish content or to attribute posts to another account, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to publish posts live and set any registered user, including an administrator, as the post author.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/829bfdc3-7a15-4d… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher Affected: 0 , < 2.8.27 (semver)
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Credits
Karthik Ramakrishnan WPScan
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