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CVE-2024-9685: Notification for Telegram <= 3.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Send Telegram Test Message

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Notification for Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized test message sending due to a missing capability check on the 'nftb_test_action' function in versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to send a test message via the Telegram Bot API to all users configured in the settings.

Affected products

• rainafarai Notification for Telegram: before 3.3.2 — fixed in 3.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rainafarai Notification for Telegram 3.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/notification-for-telegram/tags/3.3/index.php#L202
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3165615/notification-for-telegram
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abaebd3b-69ab-4e9b-a528-c9d846e62238?source=cve

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