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CVE-2026-0691: CM E-Mail Blacklist <= 1.6.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'black_email' Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2026-01-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'black_email' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• creativemindssolutions CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration: through 1.6.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-email-blacklist/tags/1.6.2/backend/views/settings/email_blacklist.phtml#L67
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/cm-email-blacklist/trunk/backend/views/settings/email_blacklist.phtml#L67
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3440158%40cm-email-blacklist&new=3440158%40cm-email-blacklist&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/821f4ea9-bc25-4d65-9058-5b77c4f1b230?source=cve

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