CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-75908
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-09-28
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.17. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to send arbitrary newsletter emails to users of any WordPress role, including administrators, by forging POST fields during a normal post submission. This allows an attacker-supplied role slug via the newsletters_mailinglistsroles POST field to be passed directly to get_users(), enabling unauthorized mass-mailing and potential phishing against privileged site users through the site's own outbound email channel.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.17/includes/checkinit.php#L63 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.17/wp-mailinglist.php#L3897 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.17/wp-mailinglist.php#L3957 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletters-lite/tags/4.17/wp-mailinglist.php#L4114 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3663788%40newsletters-lite&new=3663788%40newsletters-lite plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1d3eddce-1b41-4a33-8d57-bd594cf06a06?source=cve www.wordfence.com