{"id":77810,"date":"2026-02-24T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-23693-elementskit-lite-3-7-9-unauthenticated-mailchimp-rest-endpoint\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:33:55","slug":"cve-2026-23693-elementskit-lite-3-7-9-unauthenticated-mailchimp-rest-endpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-23693-elementskit-lite-3-7-9-unauthenticated-mailchimp-rest-endpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-23693 &#8211; ElementsKit Lite &lt; 3.7.9 Unauthenticated Mailchimp REST Endpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-23693<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 23, 2026, 8:33 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : ElementsKit Lite (elementskit-lite) WordPress plugin versions prior to 3.7.9 expose the REST endpoint \/wp-json\/elementskit\/v1\/widget\/mailchimp\/subscribe without authentication. The endpoint accepts client-supplied Mailchimp API credentials and insufficiently validates certain parameters, including the list parameter, when constructing upstream Mailchimp API requests. An unauthenticated attacker can abuse the endpoint as an open proxy to Mailchimp, potentially triggering unauthorized API calls, manipulating subscription data, exhausting API quotas, or causing resource consumption on the affected WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 10.0 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-23693 Published : Feb. 23, 2026, 8:33 p.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago Description : ElementsKit Lite (elementskit-lite) WordPress plugin versions prior to 3.7.9 expose the REST endpoint \/wp-json\/elementskit\/v1\/widget\/mailchimp\/subscribe without authentication. The endpoint accepts client-supplied Mailchimp API credentials and insufficiently validates certain parameters, including the list parameter, when constructing upstream Mailchimp API requests. An &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}