CVE-2026-89334 (GCVE-0-2026-89334)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-19 02:27
Modified
2026-09-19 14:01
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
Summary
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.33. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to access the full message transcript, thread metadata, and user data of any chat-room thread without authentication. This is only exploitable when the chat room's only_joined_can_read setting retains its default value of '0'.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordplus Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots Version: 0   ≤ 2.15.33
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