CVE-2026-89334: Better Messages <= 2.15.33 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Chat-Room Transcript Disclosure via '/thread/<id>' REST Endpoint

Published Sep 19, 2026
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Updated

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 onlyjoinedcanread setting retains its default value of '0'.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Better Messages Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots plugin for WordPress<=2.15.33

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade WordPress plugin: Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.15.33
  2. Configuration

    Set chat room setting only_joined_can_read to a value other than the default '0' (the issue is exploitable when only_joined_can_read retains default value '0').

    Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots (WordPress plugin) only_joined_can_read = 0

Event History

Sep 19, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·02:27 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·02:27 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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