CVE-2026-16265CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2026-16265

Medium · published August 7, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.7 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing users with a Subscriber account to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00411 · 34.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-08-07T10:16Z
References (1)
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5432f989-03d8-49d9-ac45-0d5a6a7bf499/ · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 AUG 06:00Z
    WP Maps < 4.9.7 - Subscriber+ Denial of Service
    cvelistv5