WordPress plugin
Store Locator Plus < 4.2.27 — Email Injection
ea607a56-ed6e-44dd-be42-a0b0d970742ePublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: <4.2.27Update to 4.2.27 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Store Locator Plus® for WordPress store-locator-le
- Affected< 4.2.27
- Patched in4.2.27
Update to 4.2.27 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 4.2.27. Version 4.2.27 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Store Locator Plus® for WordPress.
- 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 4.2.27, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Store Locator Plus® for WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kacper Szurek.
The Store Locator Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Email Injection in versions before 4.2.27. This is due to nonce leakage. This makes it possible for attackers to send spam emails from a fake address.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Store Locator Plus® for WordPress
All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure ≤2311.17.01No patch available | CVE-2024-43258 | |
| High8.8 | Authenticated Privilege Escalation ≤5.5.15Update to 5.7 | CVE-2021-24289 | |
| Medium6.1 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.12.3Update to 5.13.8 | CVE-2021-24290 | |
| Medium6.1 | Cross-Site Scripting <4.5.11Update to 4.5.12 | — |
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2311.17.01No patch available
- High8.8Authenticated Privilege Escalation
≤5.5.15Update to 5.7
- Medium6.1Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.12.3Update to 5.13.8
- Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
<4.5.11Update to 4.5.12
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.