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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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-284 CWE-400 |
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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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published: 2026-09-05T06:00:10.456Z
Updated: 2026-09-06T10:23:48.136Z
Reserved: 2026-09-02T16:28:22.323Z
Link: CVE-2026-84936
Updated: 2026-09-06T10:23:27.247Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-09-05T07:17:14.873
Modified: 2026-09-08T19:15:18.627
Link: CVE-2026-84936
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