CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-6235
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-08-06
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Sendmachine for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via the 'manage_admin_requests' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.20. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the plugin's SMTP configuration, which can be leveraged to intercept all outbound emails from the site (including password reset emails).
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sendmachine/tags/1.0.20/includes/sendmachine_email_manager.php#L39 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sendmachine/tags/1.0.20/sendmachine_wp_admin.php#L174 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sendmachine/tags/1.0.20/sendmachine_wp_admin.php#L183 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3511578 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7889e071-84a8-46ec-abe5-5c98980ce275?source=cve www.wordfence.com