PT-2024-16812 · WordPress · Email Subscription Popup

Peter Thaleikis · Published 2024-11-19 · Updated 2025-07-09 · CVE-2024-11195

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Email Subscription Popup plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.2.22

Description The Email Subscription Popup plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's print email subscribe form shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For Email Subscription Popup plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.2.22, update to a version later than 1.2.22 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the print email subscribe form shortcode until a patch is available. Restrict access to the plugin's settings to minimize the risk of exploitation, ensuring only trusted users with administrator-level access can modify the settings.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-11195

Affected Products

Email Subscription Popup

References · 17

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11195 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3189989 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11195 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824840527519783 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824861624860892 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f8c18b0d-15fe-45d6-9915-85d38803c117?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824918457688460 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribe/tags/1.2.22/wp-email-subscription.php#L2860 · Note
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824854897144036 · Twitter Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-subscribe/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/128236 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824847477432639 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/transilienceai/status/1859824832025628969 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1858850850606825561 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/102108 · Telegram Post