⚠ Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Tracker

Description

The POST SMTP Mailer – Email log, Delivery Failure Notifications and Best Mail SMTP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data and modification of data due to a type juggling issue on the connect-app REST endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the API key used to authenticate to the mailer and view logs, including password reset emails, allowing site takeover.

Lifecycle Timeline

• 2024-01-10
  Public exploit code

  Metasploit — Wordpress POST SMTP Account Takeover

  Metasploit →
• 2024-01-11
  CVE published 1 day later

  Entered the public CVE record.

  CVE.org →
• 2024-01-19
  First national advisory 8 days later

  CERT-EU — 2024-011: Vulnerability in Wordpress POST SMTP Mailer Plugin

  CyberzSOC advisory index →
• 2024-11-30
  EPSS flags exploitation risk 10 months later

  Probability rose past 10%, from 2.9% to 57.6%. Dated to the sampled week.

  FIRST EPSS →
• not recorded
  Added to CISA KEV

  Not in the CISA KEV catalog.
• not recorded
  Federal remediation due

  No remediation deadline set.
• not recorded
  Vendor fix published

  No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 152 points from 2024-01-20, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 93.9% on 2025-12-20.

Published Applicability

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

Listed By

Referenced in Advisories

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →