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.

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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L132 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L46 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L52 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L59 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L84 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L90 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/admin/includes.php#L97 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/tags/1.2.0/custom-new-user-notification.php#L63 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L132 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L46 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L52 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L59 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L84 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L90 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/admin/includes.php#L97 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-new-user-notification/trunk/custom-new-user-notification.php#L63 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a14d35d-144c-4ddd-b288-5e0e006fb165?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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Description 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.
Title Custom New User Notification <= 1.2.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'User Mail Subject' Setting
Weaknesses CWE-79
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-16T05:29:53.185Z

Reserved: 2026-03-04T18:49:36.648Z

Link: CVE-2026-3551

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-16T06:16:10.530

Modified: 2026-04-16T06:16:10.530

Link: CVE-2026-3551

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