WP Dashboard Notes

WP Dashboard Notes has 3 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2023 and 2024; all 3 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 5.0, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10. 2024 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, behind 1 of the records (33%). Other recurring categories include Cross-Site Scripting, Missing Authorization.

Every one of the 3 issues recorded for WP Dashboard Notes has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

2 independent researchers contributed these findings, most of them (2) reported by Pedro Cuco (Illex). WP Dashboard Notes is installed on roughly 20,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.8.8.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
5.0/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

3

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2024-43226

WP Dashboard Notes <= 1.0.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

3 records
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Latestv1.0.13

WP Dashboard Notes

Jeroen Sormani

Author

Jeroen Sormani

4.6(110)
92/100
Last Updated
2026-04-08 (5mo ago)
Active Installs
20,000+
Downloads
253,842
Requires WP
4.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 6.8.8
Created
2014-08-20 (12y ago)

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