WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Better Messages < 3.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Chat-Room Transcript Disclosure via '/thread/<id>' REST Endpoint
Description
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.33. 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 custom-level access and above, to access the full message transcript, thread metadata, and user data of any chat-room thread without authentication. This is only exploitable when the chat room's only_joined_can_read setting retains its default value of '0'.
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Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Supakiad S. (m3ez)
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-18 (about 28 days ago)
Added
2026-09-18 (about 28 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-19 (about 28 days ago)