Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 6, 2026· Updated Aug 6, 2026

CVE-2026-11983

Description

The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.16 due to a missing capability check in the ai_ajax function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view the contents of ad blocks that an administrator has restricted to administrator-only visibility.

Affected products

WordPress/Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Adsllm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.8.16

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3567905nvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3583409nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5715acd-62e6-4cd8-8fe8-4b1412f287c9nvd

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