Plugins · elastic-email-sender · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Elastic Email Sender safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.2.22
- Last updated
- 2025-12-03
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Known issues on record
- 2
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 6.9.11 · PHP 7.0+
Reconfigures wp_mail() to send email using Elastic Email API instead of SMTP. — by Elastic Email
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.2.22). Anything older than 1.2.21 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get elastic-email-sender --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update elastic-email-sender updates it.
Check your version
Known vulnerabilities
2 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 4.3 CVE-2025-66525 · published 2025-12-09
Missing authorization check in Elastic Email Sender (1.2.20 and older)
- Affected
- 1.2.20 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.2.21
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Elastic Email Elastic Email Sender elastic-email-sender allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Elastic Email Sender: from n/a through <= 1.2.20.
medium 4.8 CVE-2023-38387 · published 2023-09-03
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Elastic Email Sender (1.2.6 and older)
- Affected
- 1.2.6 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.2.7
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Auth. (admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Elastic Email Sender plugin <= 1.2.6 versions.
Recent activity
- 2025-12-03 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.2.22).
- 2025-12-09 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2025-66525), fixed in 1.2.21.
- 2023-09-03 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2023-38387), fixed in 1.2.7.
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Browse vulnerabilities
Types found in this plugin: Missing authorization (1) · Cross-site scripting (XSS) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/elastic-email-sender (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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