Plugins · retainful · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.0.11
- Last updated
- 2026-10-05
- Active installs
- 600+
- Known issues on record
- 1
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 7.4+
Email marketing, newsletters for WordPress and WooCommerce. Send newsletters and campaigns, recover abandoned carts, signup forms, and more — by retainful
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.0.11). Anything older than 1.0.11 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 retainful --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update retainful updates it.
Check your version
Known vulnerabilities
1 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 6.4 CVE-2026-97396 · published 2026-10-10
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce (1.0.10 and older)
- Affected
- 1.0.10 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.0.11 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Email Marketing for WordPress and WooCommerce – Retainful plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
NVD CVE-2026-97396Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
Recent activity
- 2026-10-05 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.0.11).
- 2026-10-10 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2026-97396), fixed in 1.0.11.
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Browse vulnerabilities
Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/retainful (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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