CVE-2026-16567: Unknown Document Embedder

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Document Embedder WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not check a document's status before issuing a download token and streaming the file, allowing unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary Document Embedder WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 documents, including private and draft ones, by enumerating IDs.

Affected products

• Unknown Document Embedder: before 2.3.1 (fixed in 2.3.1)

Published 2026-08-27. Last modified 2026-08-28.