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CVE-2024-1995: Smart Custom Fields <= 4.2.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Content Disclosure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Smart Custom Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the relational_posts_search() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscrber-level access and above, to retrieve post content that is password protected and/or private.

Affected products

• inc2734 Smart Custom Fields: through 4.2.2

References

• https://github.com/inc2734/smart-custom-fields/commit/67cb6d75bd8189668f721dbd2dc7a3036851be1b
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-custom-fields/trunk/classes/fields/class.field-related-posts.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3052172%40smart-custom-fields&new=3052172%40smart-custom-fields&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e966a266-4265-4a72-8a50-e872805219a7?source=cve
• https://github.com/inc2734/smart-custom-fields/commit/67cb6d75bd8189668f721dbd2dc7a3036851be1b
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-custom-fields/trunk/classes/fields/class.field-related-posts.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3052172%40smart-custom-fields&new=3052172%40smart-custom-fields&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e966a266-4265-4a72-8a50-e872805219a7?source=cve

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