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CVE-2026-3551 Detail

Description

The Custom New User Notification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on multiple settings fields including 'User Mail Subject', 'User From Name', 'User From Email', 'Admin Mail Subject', 'Admin From Name', and 'Admin From Email'. The settings are registered via register_setting() without sanitize callbacks, and the values retrieved via get_option() are echoed directly into HTML input value attributes without esc_attr(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in the plugin settings page that will execute whenever a user accesses that page. This could be used in multi-site installations where administrators of subsites could target super administrators.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L132 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L46 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L52 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L59 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L84 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L90 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L97 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/custom-new-user-notification.php#L63 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L132 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L46 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L52 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L59 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L84 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L90 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L97 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/custom-new-user-notification.php#L63 Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a14d35d-144c-4ddd-b288-5e0e006fb165?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-3551
NVD Published Date:
04/16/2026
NVD Last Modified:
04/16/2026
Source:
Wordfence