CVE-2026-16265: Unknown Wp Maps

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.7 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing users with a Subscriber account to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resources, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Affected products

• Unknown Wp Maps: before 4.9.7 (fixed in 4.9.7)

Published 2026-08-07. Last modified 2026-08-26.