CVE-2026-4409Subscribe To Comments Reloaded <= 240119 - Improper Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Subscription Management
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Subscribe To Comments Reloaded plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a leaked secret key and usage of a weak hash generation algorithm in all versions up to, and including, 240119. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the global key from any public post page, forge authorization keys and manage comment subscription preferences for arbitrary users
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
wpkube · Subscribe To Comments Reloaded
- affected ≤ 240119
References
References4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91f9235e-f578-475f-92c3-34062d6d1e3d?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/wp_subscribe_reloaded.php#L1613 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/utils/stcr_utils.php#L164 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/templates/user.php#L37 (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-2026-27180 (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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