Medium severity · published Sep 19, 2026
CVE-2026-89334
Better Messages <= 2.15.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Chat-Room Transcript Disclosure via '/thread/<id>' REST Endpoint
6.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.33. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with custom-level access and above, to access the full message transcript, thread metadata, and user data of any chat-room thread without authentication. This is only exploitable when the chat room's only_joined_can_read setting retains its default value of '0'.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BM
Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots · wordplus
through 2.15.33 · source: vendor
Affected product
BM
Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots
wordplus
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89334
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89334
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3533
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3582
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/functions.php#L3601
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L181
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L1964
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/tags/2.15.33/inc/rest-api.php#L2598
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