CVE-2019-20361There was a flaw in the WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters before 4.3.1, that allowed SQL statements to be passed to the…
- 8.3HighCVSS base score
- 85.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
There was a flaw in the WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers & Newsletters before 4.3.1, that allowed SQL statements to be passed to the database in the hash parameter (a blind SQL injection vulnerability).
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- WordPress Email Subscribers and Newsletter Hash SQLi Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_email_sub_news_sqliRank normaldisclosed 13 Nov 2019
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Email Subscribers & Newsletters 4.2.2 - 'hash' SQL Injection (Unauthenticated) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 48699webapps, phppublished 26 Jul 2020Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High8.3 | CVSS:3.0/AC:L/AV:N/A:L/C:L/I:L/PR:N/S:C/UI:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 85.1% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9947 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/11/multiple-vulnerabilities-patched-in-email-subscribers-newsletters-plugin/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/158568/WordPress-Email-Subscribers-And-Newsletters-4.2.2-SQL-Injection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-10914 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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