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CVE-2026-89001: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher < 2.8.27 - Contributor+ Post Publication and Author Spoofing via Campaign Settings
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2026-09-27 · updated 2026-09-28
- Weakness: CWE-269
Description
The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.27 does not verify that a user running a feed campaign is permitted to publish content or to attribute posts to another account, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to publish posts live and set any registered user, including an administrator, as the post author.
Affected products
- WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher: before 2.8.27 — fixed in 2.8.27
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher 2.8.27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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