CVE-2024-8771 Missing authorization in Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress

Medium 4.3 Published 26 Sep 2024 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated subscribers can access sensitive content from private, password-protected, and draft posts due to missing capability checks.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-8771?

CVE-2024-8771 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress, published on 26 Sep 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 – Email Marketing, Newsletters, Automation for WordPress & WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'preview_email_template_design' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.34. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract sensitive data including the content of private, password protected, pending, and draft posts and pages.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8771?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Icegram Email Subscribers \& Newsletters.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8771?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8771 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-8771 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8771 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-pr27-f9rc-q4vm.