vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: newsletters-lite: CVE-2024-8247: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 5, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.2. This is due to the plugin not restricting what user meta can be updated as screen options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator. Please note that this only affects users with access to edit/update screen options, which means an administrator would need to grant lower privilege users with access to the Sent and Draft Emails page of the plugin in order for this to be exploited.

Solution

newsletters-lite-plugin-cve-2024-8247
Title
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