News Element Elementor Blog Magazine <= 1.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Data Loss

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-2284
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published February 18, 2026
Last Updated February 19, 2026
Researcher Legion Hunter
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug news-element (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.8
Patched Version
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