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CVE-2024-1479: WP Show Posts <= 1.1.4 - Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The WP Show Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.4 via the wpsp_display function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor access and above to view the contents of draft, trash, future, private and pending posts and pages.

Affected products

• edge22 WP Show Posts: before 1.1.5 — fixed in 1.1.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: edge22 WP Show Posts 1.1.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-show-posts/trunk/wp-show-posts.php#L224
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-show-posts/trunk/wp-show-posts.php#L591
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3041416%40wp-show-posts%2Ftrunk&old=2846296%40wp-show-posts%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6788e2ee-ce61-494b-8d7f-6d1144466e58?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-show-posts/trunk/wp-show-posts.php#L224
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-show-posts/trunk/wp-show-posts.php#L591
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3041416%40wp-show-posts%2Ftrunk&old=2846296%40wp-show-posts%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6788e2ee-ce61-494b-8d7f-6d1144466e58?source=cve

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