Vulnerabilities / BetterDocs / WPSEC-2026-2872
BetterDocs <= 4.9.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure of Draft and Private Docs via doc-categories REST Route
Medium 4.3
CWE-200Fixed in 4.9.6
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2872
- Plugin
- BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot (betterdocs)
- Affected
- all versions before 4.9.6
- Remediation
- Update to 4.9.6 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-12
- Attack surface
- BetterDocs on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The BetterDocs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure via the betterdocs/v1/doc-categories REST route in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.5. The route queried draft, pending, private and scheduled docs for any user with the edit_docs capability and returned every match without checking whether that user could read or edit each doc. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to see the titles, slugs, authors and dates of other users' unpublished and private docs.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2872/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/betterdocs/tags/4.9.6/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/betterdocs/
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