CVE-2026-2284
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.
Affected WordPress components
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News Element Elementor Blog Magazine Plugin · news-elementUp to and including 1.0.8View on WordPress.org
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News Element Theme · news-elementUp to and including 1.0.8View on WordPress.org
A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.
Affected products and versions
- webangon News Element Elementor Blog Magazine — Up to and including 1.0.8
References
- 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
- nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record