CVE-2026-16979

The SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer WordPress plugin before 3.16.3 does not perform capability checks on two of its AJAX actions, allowing users with at least the Subscriber role to read the titles of private and draft posts by ID and to enumerate stored post-meta key names.

CVSS v3.1

4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 9th percentile

Published

2026-08-19

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c9eb27aa-c5f9-4f1c-b87c-337ebaf192dd/

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2026-16977
• CVE-2026-16981
• CVE-2026-16968
• CVE-2026-16984
• CVE-2026-16965
• CVE-2026-16985