Admin Notices Manager <= 1.4.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Email Retrieval
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Admin Notices Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the handle_ajax_call() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve a list of registered user emails.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-1717
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-372x-vcpr-vjq9
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0849d86b-5cf1-4346-a9e9-a54768837969?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-notices-manager/trunk/vendor/wpwhitesecurity/select2-wpwhitesecurity/load.php#L58
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3097687%40admin-notices-manager&new=3097687%40admin-notices-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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Sources
- CVE-2024-1717 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-1717 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-372x-vcpr-vjq9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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