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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-22216 EUVD-2026-11753GHSA-9j2r-2287-24hf

wpDiscuz before 7.6.47 - No Rate Limiting on Subscription Endpoints with LIKE Wildcard Bypass

Published Mar 13, 2026 · Updated Mar 13, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

wpDiscuz before 7.6.47 contains a missing rate limiting vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to subscribe arbitrary email addresses to post notifications by sending POST requests to the wpdAddSubscription handler in class.WpdiscuzHelperAjax.php. Attackers can exploit LIKE wildcard characters in the subscription query to match multiple email addresses and generate unwanted notification emails to victim accounts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gVectors wpDiscuz < 7.6.47 7.6.47

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