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CVE-2024-12825: Custom Related Posts <= 1.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Private Post Search and Relation Updates

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Custom Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access & modification of data due to a missing capability check on three AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to search posts and link/unlink relations.

Affected products

• Brecht Custom Related Posts: before 1.7.4 — fixed in 1.7.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Brecht Custom Related Posts 1.7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3226283%40custom-related-posts&new=3226283%40custom-related-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40ba98a0-2193-4201-8370-34fd438dadb3?source=cve

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