Vulnerability in Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin) (CVE-2026-16546)
Summary
Vulnerability in Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin) (CVE-2026-16546). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
The Wired Impact Volunteer Management WordPress plugin before 2.8.2 does not have authorisation checks in one of its AJAX actions, and does not verify that the RSVP being removed belongs to the requesting user, allowing users with a role as low as Subscriber to remove arbitrary users' RSVPs from any volunteer opportunity.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-16546 has been found in Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin).
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin) CVE-2026-16546" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-16546 (Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin)) — CWE-862 / CVSS v3 4.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-862) exists in Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin).
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin).
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Wired Impact Volunteer Management (WordPress plugin) を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web contact@wpscan.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web wpscan.com
- web github.com