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CVE-2026-2284: News Element Elementor Blog Magazine <= 1.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Loss

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The News Element Elementor Blog Magazine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to a missing capability check and nonce verification on the 'ne_clean_data' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to truncate 8 core WordPress database tables (posts, comments, terms, term_relationships, term_taxonomy, postmeta, commentmeta, termmeta) and delete the entire WordPress uploads directory, resulting in complete data loss.

Affected products

• webangon News Element Elementor Blog Magazine: through 1.0.8

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/tags/1.0.8/admin/inc/dash.php#L206
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/trunk/admin/inc/dash.php#L206
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e5d81318-c9da-4626-acfa-f092d2ce5fe9?source=cve

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