CVE-2026-119302NotificationX vulnerability
CVE-2026-119302 is a vulnerability in NotificationX, rated medium (6.5 on CVSS 3.1).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Received
What it is
The record does not classify the weakness yet; the description below says what the reporter found.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, without an account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- Upgrade NotificationX to 3.3.7 or later.
- Until it is patched, keep it off the internet or behind a VPN, allowlist or authenticating proxy.
Description from NVD
The NotificationX WordPress plugin before 3.3.7 does not perform any capability, authentication or nonce check on its notification preview path, allowing unauthenticated users to disclose the content of private, draft, pending and password-protected posts and to execute arbitrary registered shortcodes by supplying crafted preview data on any front-end request.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- WordPress sites and their plugins. Plugins run inside the site with its database access, and many sites are public.
Trust boundaries in play
- Internet-facing entry points. No account is needed. Any instance reachable from outside your perimeter, through a load balancer, gateway, VPN or exposed admin port, is in scope.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does NotificationX run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
Sources
- CVE records and CVSS scores from the NVD CVE API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
- Explanations are written by Veriom from fixed templates over each record’s data, not by a person reviewing each CVE. Descriptions are quoted from the records as published.