CVE-2026-8976
Description
The RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to create and execute RSS import jobs, purge (force-delete) all posts associated with any import job, clear import error logs, and enumerate taxonomy terms and post meta_key names. The nonce required to reach these sub-handlers is leaked to any user with the edit_posts capability via the feedzyjs localized script injected into the block editor, meaning no privileged nonce theft or separate exploit step is required for Contributor-level users.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=5.1.7
- Range: <=5.1.7
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
22- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/feedzy-rss-feeds.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.2/includes/gutenberg/feedzy-rss-feeds-gutenberg-block.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/admin/feedzy-rss-feeds-import.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/feedzy-rss-feeds.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/feedzy-rss-feeds/tags/5.1.5/includes/gutenberg/feedzy-rss-feeds-gutenberg-block.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e495c215-2e01-4a37-aca3-99a067c46791nvd
News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (June 1, 2026 to June 7, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Jun 11, 2026