# CVE-2024-4010: Email Subscribers by Icegram Express <= 5.7.19 - Missing Authorization in handle_ajax_request

> Authenticated subscribers can perform unauthorized actions leading to data loss and potential injection attacks due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 May 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-v2hm-3hjr-8r95

## What is CVE-2024-4010?

CVE-2024-4010 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress, published on 15 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Email Subscribers by Icegram Express plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data, modification of data, and loss of data due to a missing capability check on the handle_ajax_request function in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.19. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to cause a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, by performing multiple unauthorized actions. Some of these actions could also be leveraged to conduct PHP Object Injection and SQL Injection attacks.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4010?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-4010?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4010 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4010 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4010 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4010 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4010 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress, published on 15 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4010 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4010/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4010/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4010
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4010
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4010

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4010/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.