WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Email Subscribers & Newsletters < 5.9.28 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Settings Modification via ig_es_handle_request AJAX Action
Description
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.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-07-01 (about 3 months ago)
Added
2026-07-01 (about 3 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-02 (about 3 months ago)