The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.4 does not have proper authorization on a public review-loading action, allowing unauthenticated users to force the site to make repeated billable third-party API requests using the site's own configured API key, and to create an unbounded number of attacker-controlled rows in the database.
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Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-284
CWE-400

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.4 does not have proper authorization on a public review-loading action, allowing unauthenticated users to force the site to make repeated billable third-party API requests using the site's own configured API key, and to create an unbounded number of attacker-controlled rows in the database.
Title EmbedPress 4.6.0 - 4.6.3 - Unauthenticated Google Reviews API Quota Consumption and Database Bloat
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-05T06:00:10.456Z

Reserved: 2026-09-02T16:28:22.323Z

Link: CVE-2026-84936

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-05T07:17:14.873

Modified: 2026-09-05T07:17:14.873

Link: CVE-2026-84936

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Updated: 2026-09-05T07:45:05Z

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