Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 7, 2026· Updated Apr 22, 2026

CVE-2026-1087

Description

The Guardian News Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to missing nonce validation on the settings update functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings, including the Guardian API key, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

The Guardian/Guardian News Feedllm-create
Range: <=1.2

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-guardian-news-feed/tags/1.2/gu-open-platform-settings.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-guardian-news-feed/trunk/gu-open-platform-settings.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9065f61-d899-44a3-a43a-3eeeeedaa6f1nvd

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