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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-16T05:29:53.185Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-16T05:29:53.185Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-3551 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Rafasashi
  • Custom New User Notification
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-3551.

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

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