CVE-2024-8771

Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce <= 5.7.34 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure

2024-09-25 00:00
Michelle Porter

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.7.35
Affected Plugin
Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
Affected Version
<= 5.7.34
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-8771
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At a glance

CVE-2024-8771 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Email Subscribers & Newsletters WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.7.34. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 5.7.35; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2024, reported by Michelle Porter.

Vulnerability Overview

The Email Subscribers by Icegram Express – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'preview_email_template_design' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.34. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including the content of private, password protected, pending, and draft posts and pages.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Email Subscribers & Newsletters <= 5.7.34 carries this weakness at preview_email_template_design, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Email Subscribers & Newsletters the fix is 5.7.35: builds <= 5.7.34 are affected, anything from 5.7.35 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.7.35, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Email Subscribers & Newsletters 5.7.35 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8771https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f9d90717-fd48-493b-9293-32976bf2cadahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8771

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