Vulnerabilities / Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor / WPSEC-2026-1648
Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor <= 1.9.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Post Publication via Post Status Toggle
Medium 4.3
CWE-862Fixed in 1.9.2
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1648
- Plugin
- Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor (better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor)
- Affected
- all versions before 1.9.2
- Remediation
- Update to 1.9.2 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-26
- Attack surface
- Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication via the frontend post status toggle REST endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.1 due to the endpoint only checking the edit_post capability before setting a post's status to 'publish'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to publish their own posts without the publish_posts capability, bypassing editorial review.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1648/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor/tags/1.9.2/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor/
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