WordPress Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture <= 3.10 — Missing Authorization to Email Capture List Download
a41d78b9-9bdb-48dd-b3ec-2559e79fa251Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.10Update to 3.11 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.2
- CVSS
- 8.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture wp-email-capture
- Affected≤ 3.10
- Patched in3.11
Update to 3.11 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.10. Version 3.11 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture.
- 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
- Update to version 3.11, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Email Marketing Plugin – WP Email Capture to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Nguyen Anh Tien.
The WP Email Capture plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Email Capture list download due to a missing capability check on the wp_email_capture_options_process function in versions up to, and including, 3.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download email captures.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤3.12.5Update to 3.12.6 | CVE-2025-68529 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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