What is CVE-2026-16534?

CVE-2026-16534 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Import And Export Users Customers, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-08-03.

How severe is CVE-2026-16534?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Import And Export Users Customers

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 ad…

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.1 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Unknown Import And Export Users Customers — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

contact@wpscan.com (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16534?: CVE-2026-16534 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Import And Export Users Customers, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.1/10. Published 2026-08-03.
How severe is CVE-2026-16534?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.1 out of 10.