{"id":239354,"date":"2026-06-20T06:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hackers-exploit-info-disclosure-bug-in-gravity-smtp-wordpress-plugin"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:07:34","slug":"hackers-exploit-info-disclosure-bug-in-gravity-smtp-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/hackers-exploit-info-disclosure-bug-in-gravity-smtp-wordpress-plugin","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploit info disclosure bug in Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-exploit-info-disclosure-bug-in-gravity-smtp-wordpress-plugin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026\u20134020 and received a medium severity rating. It affects all versions of the plugin from 2.1.4 and older and has been addressed in version 2.1.5, released on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress security company Defiant is warning that hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability. The company\u2019s Wordfence firewall has blocked more than 17 million attempts against protected customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026\u20134020 and received a medium severity rating. It affects all versions of the plugin from 2.1.4 and older and has been addressed in version 2.1.5, released on March 17. WordPress security [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}