CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-16265

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-08-07 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-07
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.7 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing users with a Subscriber account to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References