MailerLite – Signup forms (official)

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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37 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 12 listed. 25 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 73% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ honeystonebooks

   8mo ago

   I signed up with mailerlite to manage newsletters (as opposed to ecommerce abandoned cart flows etc). I made an embedded signup form for newsletter subscription. THEN I learned that I needed this very specific plugin to be able to embed it on my website with ease. I installed the plugin. It did not connect to mailerlite through my existing WooCommerce integration, even though this was a plugin that I didn’t want but had to have because I lack coding knowledge beyond basic html. I spent more than an hour trying to troubleshoot this – there was no point making a new API code because I was already integrated with WooCommerce. What was not clear via any online source was that it needed the exact same API code to be pasted into the API field, because even though this has ONE JOB and SHOULD integrate with the foundational mailerlite plugin, it just… doesn’t. So I pasted the WooCommerce API code into the API field and now it is connected. Just updating here in case anyone else had the same issue and ran out of patience. This topic was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by honeystonebooks.

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2. ★★★★★ domino5000

   9mo ago

   I’ve had a similar experience to another commenter. Initially the plugin worked well. But later when I click to edit my form, it would redirect to MailerLite website and say “Form not found”. So I tried two things – created form on their website – result is that I can’t see it in my WordPress plugin (even after reinstalling plugin). Second thing I tried – created a from inside the WordPress plugin – result – even though the subscription says successful, contact is not added to any of the lists. I also created another list on their website, but it wasn’t showing in the plugin. After fruitless two hours, I’ve deleted the plugin, will use someting else This topic was modified 5 months ago by domino5000.

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3. ★★★★★ geppeinserra

   10mo ago

   My experience with MailerLite has been simply disastrous.The problem does not concern only the WordPress plugin, but the entire platform. After numerous attempts the result was always the same:forms display a success message, but users are NOT added to any list. This happens both from WordPress and directly from the MailerLite web interface.A system that communicates “subscription successful” when the subscription has not actually occurred is, quite simply, unreliable. The interface is confusing, the logic opaque, and the complete lack of meaningful error feedback makes it impossible to understand what is going wrong. For such a basic function as subscriber management, this is unacceptable. After hours wasted on tests and checks, I uninstalled everything.I cannot recommend MailerLite to anyone looking for a simple, transparent, and reliable tool.

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4. ★★★★★ surfbee

   1.1y ago

   Plugin does not apply the styling to the form. Much easier to just use the JavaScript to embed forms.

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5. ★★★★★ phil40230

   1.4y ago

   The day before our email is validated, the next day we’re asked to validate it by installing incomprehensible codes on our website!We understand nothing. I think we’re going to look for another, simpler plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ Lukas Cech

   1.6y ago

   The API connection works, you can use a form you created on mailerlite.com through the plugin and get a shortcode. but if you create a new pop up form, save it and reload it – it just shows the default values and deletes all your custom texts.

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7. ★★★★★ ferdanmena

   1.6y ago

   The plugin doesn’t work

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8. ★★★★★ Daniel Pereyra Costas

   2.2y ago

   The plugin does not work correctly with the new block based checkout. There are some issues regarding this from mora than 3 months with no resolution 😕

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.7.26 Security fixes 1.7.26
2. — Version 1.7.25 Security fixes 1.7.25
3. — Version 1.7.24 Security fixes 1.7.24
4. — Version 1.7.23 Bug fixes & improvements 1.7.23
5. — Version 1.7.22 Security fixes 1.7.22
6. — Version 1.7.21 Security fixes 1.7.21

All 9 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (1.7.27). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 4.3 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.7.21 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Form Creation and Deletion ↗
   2026-09-23 CVE-2026-3253 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.7.21 Patched in 1.7.22
2. Patched Medium · 4.3 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.7.18 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2026-01-28 CVE-2026-25420 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.7.18 Patched in 1.7.19
3. Patched Medium · 5.5 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.7.16 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-12-11 CVE-2025-13993 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.7.16 Patched in 1.7.17
4. Patched Medium · 6.4 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) 1.5.0 - 1.7.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-04-29 CVE-2024-1386 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects 1.5.0 - 1.7.6 Patched in 1.7.7
5. Patched Medium · 5.3 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.7.6 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2024-04-29 CVE-2024-2797 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.7.6 Patched in 1.7.7
6. Patched High · 8.8 MailerLite – Signup forms (official) <= 1.5.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2022-08-01 CVE-2022-33201 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 1.5.7 Patched in 1.5.8
7. Patched Medium · 6.1 MailerLite - Signup forms <= 1.5.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-05-18 CVE-2022-1604 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.5.3 Patched in 1.5.4
8. Patched Critical · 9.8 MailerLite Signup Forms < 1.4.4 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection ↗
   2020-05-22 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command Affects < 1.4.4 Patched in 1.4.4
9. Patched Medium · 5.4 MailerLite – Signup forms <= 1.4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2020-05-22 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects < 1.4.5 Patched in 1.4.5

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-07 90K+ → 100K+ up after 345 days in tier
2. 2025-02-27 80K+ → 90K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-02-25 90K+ → 80K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-02-23 80K+ → 90K+ up after 478 days in tier
5. 2023-11-03 70K+ → 80K+ up after 267 days in tier
6. 2023-02-09 60K+ → 70K+ up after 326 days in tier
7. 2022-03-20 50K+ → 60K+ up after 334 days in tier
8. 2021-04-20 40K+ → 50K+ up after 173 days in tier

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MailerLite – Signup forms (official): 100K+ active installs, 2.9★ (41 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/official-mailerlite-sign-up-forms