CVE-2026-89334
Better Messages <= 2.15.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Chat-Room Transcript Disclosure via '/thread/<id>' REST Endpoint
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
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'.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.70% · top 47% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
wordplus · Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots
- affected ≤ 2.15.33
References (9)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3243fe4-9d11-49f0-884b-0162cd776993?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L2598 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L181 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L418 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3533 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3582 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3601 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L1964 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F2.15.33%2Finc%2Ffunctions.php&new_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F3.0.0%2Finc%2Ffunctions.php (opens in a new tab)
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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