# WPZOOM Portfolio Lite – Filterable Portfolio Plugin <= 1.4.33 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Post Modification via Re-order AJAX Actions

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1012
- **Plugin:** WPZOOM Portfolio Lite – Filterable Portfolio Plugin (`wpzoom-portfolio`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpzoom-portfolio/
- **Affected versions:** from 1.3.0 before 1.4.34
- **Fixed in:** 1.4.34 (Update to 1.4.34 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-15)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/wpzoom-portfolio
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-14
- **Published:** 2026-10-15
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1012/

## Description

The WPZOOM Portfolio Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability checks on the set_featured, save_order and reorder_items AJAX actions in versions 1.3.0 to 1.4.33. The handlers only verified a nonce, which was exposed to any user with the edit_posts capability on the portfolio Re-order page, and then updated whichever post IDs the request supplied. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to change the post type of arbitrary posts and pages to the portfolio type, change their menu order, and reset the order of all portfolio items.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1012/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wpzoom-portfolio/tags/1.4.34/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpzoom-portfolio/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1012/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.