CVE-2026-4409
CVE-2026-4409 — Subscribe To Comments Reloaded <= 240119 - Improper Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Subscription Management
The Subscribe To Comments Reloaded plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a leaked secret key and usage of a weak hash generation algorithm in all versions up to, and including, 240119. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the global key from any public post page, forge authorization keys and manage comment subscription preferences for arbitrary users
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Wordfence
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
0%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
6.5
MEDIUM
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
Yes
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-200
Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.
- T1562.003Impair Defenses: Impair Command History Logging
- T1574.006Hijack Execution Flow: Dynamic Linker Hijacking
- T1574.007Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable
References
4 on the record
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91f9235e-f578-475f-92c3-34062d6d1e3d?source=cve
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/wp_subscribe_reloaded.php#L1613
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/utils/stcr_utils.php#L164
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/tags/240119/templates/user.php#L37
reference
Elsewhere on this site
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.