wardee Mail Logging & Catcher Plugin up to 2.2.0 on WordPress Email Logs message information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in wardee Mail Logging & Catcher Plugin up to 2.2.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Email Logs. Performing a manipulation of the argument Message results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-120040. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in wardee Mail Logging & Catcher Plugin up to 2.2.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Email Logs. The manipulation of the argument message with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The Mail logging & Catcher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0 via the 'message' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract valid administrator password-reset keys from stored email logs and complete the WordPress password-reset flow to escalate privileges to administrator. Exploitation requires an administrator to have previously configured the plugin's default_view_role setting to a capability held by low-privileged users such as 'read'; on an untouched install the default of 'manage_options' restricts log access to administrators only.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-120040 since 10/30/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 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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• wardee

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• Mail Logging & Catcher Plugin

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2.0

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