Information disclosure in Comments Import & Export

CVE-2026-87836

The Comments Import & Export WordPress plugin before 2.5.4 does not restrict its comment export to users able to moderate comments, nor scope the export to content owned by the requesting user, allowing users with the Author role and above to retrieve every comment on the site, including commenter email addresses, IP addresses, unapproved comment content and comment meta.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (24.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-87836: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Comments Import & Export

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-87836?
CVE-2026-87836 is a low-severity vulnerability in Comments Import & Export, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2026-09-17.
How severe is CVE-2026-87836?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.