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4.4
WordPress Custom New User Notification plugin: User data can be hijacked
CVE-2026-3551
Summary
A security issue in the Custom New User Notification plugin for WordPress allows attackers with Administrator-level access to inject malicious code into the plugin's settings. This could be used to harm your website or steal sensitive information. Update the plugin to the latest version to fix this issue.
Original title
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 insuff...
Original 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.
nvd CVSS3.1
4.4
Vulnerability type
CWE-79
Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/ad...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/cu...
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a14d35d-144c-4ddd-b28...
Published: 16 Apr 2026 · Updated: 16 Apr 2026 · First seen: 16 Apr 2026