Vulnerabilities / PublishPress Permissions: Access Control, Content Permissions, User Access / WPSEC-2026-3121
PublishPress Permissions: Access Control, Content Permissions, User Access <= 4.9.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Enable Permissions Filtering for Post Types and Taxonomies
Medium 4.3
CWE-862Fixed in 5.0.0
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-3121
- Plugin
- PublishPress Permissions: Access Control, Content Permissions, User Access (press-permit-core)
- Affected
- all versions before 5.0.0
- Remediation
- Update to 5.0.0 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 Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-13
- Attack surface
- PublishPress Permissions: Access Control, Content Permissions, User Access on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The PublishPress Permissions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings modification in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.1 due to a missing capability check and missing nonce validation on the 'pp_enable_post_type' parameter processed during post and term saves. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above, who can save a post or term, to enable permissions filtering for a post type or taxonomy, changing the site's permissions configuration.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-3121/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/press-permit-core/tags/5.0.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/
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