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Description

The MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 4.11.1. This is due to the plugin trusting the `_mc4wp_action` POST parameter without validation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to force the form to process unsubscribe actions instead of subscribe actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to arbitrarily unsubscribe any email address from the connected Mailchimp audience via the `_mc4wp_action` parameter, granted they can obtain the form ID (which is publicly exposed in the HTML source).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-02 | Published 2026-03-11 | Updated 2026-03-11 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2026-02-03:Vendor Notified
2026-03-10:Disclosed

Credits

Sarawut Poolkhet finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-5656-4a2b-aeb5-060018798369?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../forms/class-form-listener.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../forms/class-form-listener.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../includes/forms/class-form.php

cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html

github.com/...ommit/5fdebc2a5e22d11287d011697a6b09331bd96fa5

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2026-1781)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-1781)

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