CVE-2024-1717: Admin Notices Manager <= 1.4.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) User Email Retrieval

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

Melapress Admin Notices Manager: through 1.4.0

References

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=
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://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0849d86b-5cf1-4346-a9e9-a54768837969?source=cve

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