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MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc. <= 1.2.77.3 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-57813Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.77.3Update to 1.2.78.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc. mailoptin

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.77.3
  2. Patched in1.2.78.0

Update to 1.2.78.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.77.3. Version 1.2.78.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc..
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.78.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc. to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to qdtad.

The MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.77.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc.

All 8
More vulnerabilities in MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc.
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'form_custom_field_mappings' Parameter
≤1.2.78.6Update to 1.2.78.7
CVE-2026-109515
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.2.78.0Update to 1.2.78.1
CVE-2026-66703
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.2.75.0Update to 1.2.75.1
CVE-2025-58596
Medium5.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.2.70.3Update to 1.2.70.4
CVE-2024-8628
Medium5.5Authenticated (Admin+) Cross Site Scripting
1.2.54.0 – 1.2.54.0Update to 1.2.54.1
CVE-2023-23980

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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