CVE-2026-3551CWE-79

Custom New User Notification <= 1.2.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'User Mail Subject' Setting

Medium · published April 16, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00412 · 34.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-04-16T05:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 APR 05:29Z
    Custom New User Notification <= 1.2.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'User Mail Subject' Setting
    cvelistv5