The Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.27. 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 contributor-level access and above, to overwrite plugin mail settings (from name and from email address), create audience lists, insert arbitrary contacts into those lists, create and overwrite newsletter broadcasts and post notifications, add workflows, and queue and dispatch mass email to arbitrary recipients.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusPublished → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-28 01:16
- First seenCVSS 4.3 · icegramNVD modified 2026-10-28 00:41
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 13
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/admin/class-email-subscribers-admin.php#L216
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/admin/class-ig-es-onboarding.php#L171
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/class-email-subscribers-activator.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/classes/class-es-newsletters.php#L717
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/workflows/admin/class-es-workflow-admin-edit.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/admin/class-email-subscribers-admin.php#L216
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/admin/class-ig-es-onboarding.php#L171
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/class-email-subscribers-activator.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/classes/class-es-newsletters.php#L717
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/workflows/admin/class-es-workflow-admin-edit.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3584584%40email-subscribers&new=3584584%40email-subscribers&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-11592
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2e70691-4de9-4b12-babf-bebe267a780b?source=cve