The WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, before 4.2.3 had a flaw that allowed for unauthenticated option creation.
The WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, before 4.2.3 had a flaw that allowed for unauthenticated option creation. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a /wp-admin/admin-post.php?es_skip=1&option_name= request.
- Published
- Dec 25, 2019
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.2% · 68th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-287
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Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 1.2%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 5.3
- CNA · mitre
- 6.5
- 1.2 point gap
CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:L/C:N/I:L/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| icegram | email subscribers \& newsletters | cpe:2.3:a:icegram:email_subscribers_\&_newsletters |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- icegram email subscribers & newslettersbefore 4.2.3
Same product
icegram: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2019-20361There was a flaw in the WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters before 4.3.1, that allowed SQL statements to be passed to the data65This week
- CVE-2024-4295Email Subscribers by Icegram Express <= 5.7.20 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via hash42Plan
- CVE-2019-19985The WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, before 4.2.3 had a flaw that allowed unauthenticated file download with user informat42Plan
- CVE-2019-13569A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters plugin through 4.1.7 for WordPress.40Plan
- CVE-2024-6172Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce <= 5.7.25 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via unsubs39Monitor
- CVE-2024-31352WordPress Icegram Express plugin <= 5.7.13 - Broken Access Control vulnerability39Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-287 · Improper AuthenticationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
nvd-primary
Root cause
Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-287 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);Fixed
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Authentication AbuseCAPEC-114Medium
- Authentication BypassCAPEC-115Medium
- Identity SpoofingCAPEC-151likelihood: Medium · Medium
- Fake the Source of DataCAPEC-194Medium
- Exploiting Trust in ClientCAPEC-22likelihood: High · High
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive DataCAPEC-57likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Session HijackingCAPEC-593likelihood: High · Very High
- Token ImpersonationCAPEC-633Medium
ATT&CK techniques
Noroxi analysis
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.