What is GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg?

GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg cover?

GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-16534. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg?

GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vgCriticalCVSS 9.1

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 3, 2026

Last Modified

August 3, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-16534 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16534
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d1246a0-3cd1-4b6d-bd3e-6ed89745da26
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xw98-5fp3-v7vg