CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-2126
The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 20260113. This is due to the `usp_get_submitted_category()` function accepting user-submitted category IDs from the POST body without validating them against the admin-configured allowed categories stored in `usp_options['categories']`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to assign submitted posts to arbitr
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End","vendor":"specialk","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"20260113","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":5.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-863","description":"CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
4 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/tags/20260113/user-submitted-posts.php#L1431"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/tags/20260113/user-submitted-posts.php#L298"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3463696%40user-submitted-posts%2Ftrunk&old=3456521%40user-submitted-posts%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02c5e3ad-5cc3-40b1-a15a-10d53383abe6?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:be25f310592e77e59519f284f562fa4402ad65cc982f9160b8fd5bfc04818830 · sha256:183d2b5efb350a9e… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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