Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Guardian News Feed Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2026-1087

4.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
The Guardian News Feed
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 March 2026

What is CVE-2026-1087?

The Guardian News Feed plugin for WordPress suffers from a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability due to inadequate nonce validation in its settings update process. This security gap allows unauthenticated attackers to alter critical settings of the plugin, including the Guardian API key. They can exploit this flaw by tricking a site administrator into executing a malicious action, such as clicking a link, thereby enabling unauthorized modifications to the plugin's configuration.

Affected Version(s)

The Guardian News Feed 0 <= 1.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-guardian-n...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-guardian-n...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab
.