CVE-2026-89334
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to,…
Impact
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.33. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to access the full message transcript, thread metadata, and user data of any chat-room thread without authentication. This is only exploitable when the chat room's only_joined_can_read setting retains its default value of '0'.
Affected packages
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Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3533
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3582
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3601
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L181
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L1964
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L2598
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L418
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F2.15.33%2Finc%2Ffunctions.php&new_path=bp-better-messages%2Ftags%2F3.0.0%2Finc%2Ffunctions.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3243fe4-9d11-49f0-884b-0162cd776993?source=cve