Essential Real Estate <= 5.3.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Email Sending via Contact Agent Form
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2940
- Plugin
- Essential Real Estate (essential-real-estate)
- Affected
- from 5.3.5 before 5.3.6
- Remediation
- Update to 5.3.6 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions None seen among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-12
- Attack surface
- Essential Real Estate on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Essential Real Estate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary email sending via the contact agent form (ere_contact_agent_ajax AJAX action) in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.5, due to an incomplete fix. The recipient is still taken from the 'target_email' request parameter, and the check that it is a known contact address accepts addresses that users control without verification: the 'Other contact' email of any published property, agent email addresses, and the account email of property authors. Account emails can be set through registration or a front-end profile change with no confirmation from the address owner. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to make any email address an accepted recipient, for example by publishing a property through the front-end form, and then use the site to send messages to that address.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2940/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/essential-real-estate/tags/5.3.6/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-real-estate/
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