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'.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 3.0.0

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Supakiad S. (m3ez)
Verified
No

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)

Other