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WordPress Plugin: email-subscribers: CVE-2019-19982: Improper Authentication

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Nov 13, 2019

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 4, 2026

Description

The WordPress plugin, Email Subscribers and Newsletters, before 4.2.3 had a flaw that allowed for unauthenticated option creation. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a /wp-admin/admin-post.php?es_skipequal to1andoption_nameequal to request.

Solution

email-subscribers-plugin-cve-2019-19982

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19982
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff5d8f5f-c7af-4789-9920-a09d2733b8ee?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-9570
CVE-2019-19982
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-19982
CWE-287
EUVD-EUVD-2019-9570

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