# Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor <= 1.9.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Post Publication via Post Status Toggle

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1648
- **Plugin:** Better Post & Filter Widgets for Elementor (`better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 1.9.2
- **Fixed in:** 1.9.2 (Update to 1.9.2 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 2026-10-26)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/better-post-filter-widgets-for-elementor
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-25
- **Published:** 2026-10-26
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1648/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1648/

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.