WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher Plugin up to 2.8.26 on WordPress server-side request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher Plugin up to 2.8.26 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component RSS Feed Fetcher. The manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-89000. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher Plugin up to 2.8.26 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component RSS Feed Fetcher. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher WordPress plugin before 2.8.27 does not perform a capability check or validate the destination of a user-supplied feed URL before fetching it server-side, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to make the server issue requests to internal-only resources and read the responses back.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-89000 since 09/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.8.27 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-87892). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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CPE 2.3info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Server-side request forgery
CWE: CWE-918
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher Plugin 2.8.27

Timelineinfo

09/10/2026 CVE reserved
09/27/2026 +17 days Advisory disclosed
09/27/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/28/2026 +1 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-89000 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-89000
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-410819
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/27/2026 08:12
Updated: 09/28/2026 06:50
Changes: 09/27/2026 08:12 (55), 09/28/2026 06:50 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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