Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify WordPress site running WPFunnels 3.1.0-3.12.x
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DeliveryCraft POST to unauthenticated nopriv AJAX handler
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ExploitSupply arbitrary recipients and subject in request parameters
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ExecutionSite mail relay dispatches emails from trusted domain
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ImpactPhishing or spam delivered bypassing domain-based filters
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | No authentication, nonce, or special site configuration is required - the vulnerable handler is registered for unauthenticated WordPress AJAX callers (nopriv). The plugin must be installed and active on a WordPress site running version 3.1.0 through 3.12.x, and the site must have functional outbound email (wp_mail with a configured mail relay or SMTP). Exploitation is limited strictly to outbound email abuse: attackers cannot read site data, modify stored content, execute server-side code, or cause a denial of service through this flaw alone. Sites with outbound email disabled or blocked at the network perimeter are not vulnerable to the primary abuse scenario. CVSS vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N confirms remote unauthenticated exploitation against default-installed configurations of WPFunnels. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) accurately characterizes the limited but real harm: no confidentiality or availability impact, and integrity impact constrained to outbound email abuse. The vulnerability is trivially exploitable - no authentication, no complexity, and no user interaction required - meaning any scripted scanner can identify and abuse it at scale. A publicly available PoC via WPScan confirms this, and opportunistic bulk exploitation of exposed WordPress plugins is a well-established attacker behavior. The primary real-world consequence is email reputation damage: attackers can send phishing lures or spam from the victim site's trusted sending domain, bypassing filters that allowlist the domain. There is no KEV listing, so confirmed widespread exploitation is not established. EPSS data was not provided. Even a mid-sized municipal IT team in gdynia managing a WordPress estate should treat this as a low-severity-but-high-probability abuse vector worth patching promptly, especially given that the site's sender reputation is a shared resource across all its outbound email. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker scans for WordPress sites running WPFunnels 3.1.0-3.12.x and sends a crafted unauthenticated HTTP POST request to the vulnerable handler, supplying a list of target email addresses and a phishing subject line in the request body. The site's mail server dispatches the emails from its own authenticated sending domain to the specified recipients, bypassing spam filters that trust the domain. A publicly available PoC from WPScan confirms this attack path requires no special tooling or credentials. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 04, 2026
Unauthenticated email relay abuse in WPFunnels WordPress plugin versions 3.1.0 through 3.12.x allows any remote visitor to send emails from the affected site to arbitrary recipients with arbitrary subjects. The opt-in submission handler accepts notification recipients and email subject lines directly from HTTP request parameters without performing authorization checks or WordPress nonce validation, turning the site's trusted mail infrastructure into an open relay. A publicly available exploit exists via WPScan; vendor-released patch 3.13.0 closes the gap.
RemediationAI
Update WPFunnels to version 3.13.0 or later, which introduces the missing authorization and nonce validation on the affected opt-in submission handler. The patch is available through the WordPress plugin repository and the vendor. Advisory reference: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/45abb077-c4ed-472e-8658-443506605235/ and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79632. If an immediate update is not feasible, a compensating control is to configure a WAF rule to block unauthenticated POST requests to the specific vulnerable AJAX action parameter - though this will disrupt legitimate opt-in form submissions for site visitors. Disabling the WPFunnels email notification feature in plugin settings is a lower-risk alternative that prevents the abuse vector without fully blocking plugin functionality.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WPFunnels is a WordPress funnel and lead-capture plugin that registers AJAX submission handlers for processing opt-in form events, including email notification dispatch. The vulnerability (CWE-862, Missing Authorization) exists because one handler omits both WordPress capability checks and nonce validation before processing the request - two controls that WordPress plugins must implement to restrict AJAX endpoints to authorized callers. The affected plugin's handler reads notification recipient addresses and email subjects from raw POST parameters and passes them to WordPress's wp_mail() function, which routes through the site's configured SMTP or PHP mail relay. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:unknown:wpfunnels:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covering versions 3.1.0 through 3.12.x; the CPE vendor field is listed as 'unknown' in NVD data, which understates actual product identity.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Remote unauthenticated network access, no complexity; integrity limited to outbound email abuse only, no confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The WPFunnels WordPress plugin before 3.13.0 does not perform any authorisation or nonce check in one of its opt-in submission handlers, and takes the notification recipients and subject from the request, allowing unauthenticated users to make the site send emails to arbitrary recipients with an arbitrary subject.
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EUVD-2026-70906
GHSA-4w2x-h688-7527
NVD
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