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CVE-2020-36727
Newsletter Manager <= 1.5.1 - Insecure Deserialization
Critical9.8EPSS 1.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Newsletter Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insecure deserialization in versions up to, and including, 1.5.1. This is due to unsanitized input from the 'customFieldsDetails' parameter being passed through a deserialization function. This potentially makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a serialized PHP object.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 1.5.1
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dcfd8c4d-d48b-468d-a7d5-1ec05b068f79?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/insecure-deserialization-vulnerability-in-wordpress-newsletter-manager-plugin-unpatched/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b82124b1-e5e1-4f1e-9513-90474fd3f066 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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