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CVE-2024-12294: Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner <= 1.0.1 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 via the 'get_legacy_cookies' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including titles and permalinks of private, password-protected, pending, and draft posts.

Affected products

• jottlieb Last Viewed Posts by WPBeginner: through 1.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/last-viewed-posts/trunk/inc/namespace.php#L131
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3205041/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db838a3f-6afa-4686-8e6a-01edab2dcc96?source=cve

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