Redux Framework <= 4.5.16 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Restricted Metabox and User Profile Field Update
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2319
- Plugin
- Redux Framework (redux-framework)
- Affected
- all versions before 4.5.17
- Remediation
- Update to 4.5.17 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-03
- Attack surface
- Redux Framework on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Redux Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.16. The metabox save routine only checked that a submitted key was a declared field and ignored every permission setting. The user profile and taxonomy save routines checked only field-level permissions and ignored permissions set on the profile, term box or section. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above (on their own user profile) or contributor-level access and above (on posts they can edit), to save values to fields that the site restricts to higher-privileged users. Exploitation requires that the site defines such fields with permission restrictions.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2319/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/redux-framework/tags/4.5.17/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/redux-framework/
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