CVE-2026-12757Email Subscribers & Newsletters <= 5.9.27 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Subscriber Name Field
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It affects icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.
The The Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.9.27. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
icegram Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress icegram:email_subscribers_and_newsletters_email_marketing_post_notifications_and_newsletter_plugin_for_wordpress (from the name) | through 5.9.27 | CNA record |
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d9b4448-2b63-4704-ac9e-c4db4784638c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.26/lite/includes/workflows/actions/class-es-action-send-email.php#L188
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.26/lite/includes/classes/class-es-mailer.php#L1133
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.26/lite/includes/classes/class-es-handle-subscription.php#L165
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.26/lite/includes/classes/class-es-handle-subscription.php#L260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.22/lite/includes/workflows/actions/class-es-action-send-email.php#L188
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.22/lite/includes/classes/class-es-mailer.php#L1133
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.22/lite/includes/classes/class-es-handle-subscription.php#L165
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-subscribers/tags/5.9.22/lite/includes/classes/class-es-handle-subscription.php#L260
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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