Medium severity · published Feb 19, 2026
CVE-2026-2284
News Element Elementor Blog Magazine <= 1.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Loss
5.4
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The News Element Elementor Blog Magazine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8. This is due to a missing capability check and nonce verification on the 'ne_clean_data' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to truncate 8 core WordPress database tables (posts, comments, terms, term_relationships, term_taxonomy, postmeta, commentmeta, termmeta) and delete the entire WordPress uploads directory, resulting in complete data loss.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
News Element Elementor Blog Magazine · webangon
through 1.0.8 · source: vendor
Affected product
NE
News Element Elementor Blog Magazine
webangon
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2284
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-2284
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/tags/1.0.8/admin/inc/dash.php#L206
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/news-element/trunk/admin/inc/dash.php#L206
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e5d81318-c9da-4626-acfa-f092d2ce5fe9?source=cve
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