mvirik Text to Speech Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress Mementor_TTS_Remote_Telemetry hard-coded credentials

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in mvirik Text to Speech Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress. This affects the function Mementor_TTS_Remote_Telemetry. The manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-1233. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in mvirik Text to Speech Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function Mementor_TTS_Remote_Telemetry. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a hard-coded credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-798. The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Text to Speech for WP (AI Voices by Mementor) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to sensitive information exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This is due to the plugin containing hardcoded MySQL database credentials for the vendor's external telemetry server in the `Mementor_TTS_Remote_Telemetry` class. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract and decode these credentials, gaining unauthorized write access to the vendor's telemetry database.

The weakness was shared by Kazuma Matsumoto. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-1233 since 01/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1110.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• mvirik

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• Text to Speech Plugin

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• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8

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