CVE-2026-11592Email Subscribers & Newsletters <= 5.9.27 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Settings Modification via ig_es_handle_request AJAX Action
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 57% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
References
References13
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2e70691-4de9-4b12-babf-bebe267a780b?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/admin/class-ig-es-onboarding.php#L171 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/admin/class-email-subscribers-admin.php#L216 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/classes/class-es-newsletters.php#L717 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/workflows/admin/class-es-workflow-admin-edit.php#L74 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.24/lite/includes/class-email-subscribers-activator.php#L66 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/admin/class-ig-es-onboarding.php#L171 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/admin/class-email-subscribers-admin.php#L216 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/classes/class-es-newsletters.php#L717 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/workflows/admin/class-es-workflow-admin-edit.php#L74 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.21/lite/includes/class-email-subscribers-activator.php#L66 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3584584%40email-subscribers&new=3584584%40email-subscribers&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-11592 (opens in a new tab)
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-2026-41248 (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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