CVE-2026-84936EmbedPress 4.6.0 - 4.6.3 - Unauthenticated Google Reviews API Quota Consumption and Database Bloat
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The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.4 does not have proper authorization on a public review-loading action, allowing unauthenticated users to force the site to make repeated billable third-party API requests using the site's own configured API key, and to create an unbounded number of attacker-controlled rows in the database.
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-284
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 6, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Unknown EmbedPress unknown:embedpress (from the name) | from 4.6.0 before 4.6.4 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bd708c98-1657-423b-aa2b-14aa18307c03/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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