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CVE-2024-6709: Sync Post With Other Site <= 1.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Creation and Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2024-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Sync Post With Other Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'sps_add_update_post' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create new draft posts and update existing posts.

Affected products

• Kamlesh Parmar Sync Post With Other Site: before 1.7 — fixed in 1.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kamlesh Parmar Sync Post With Other Site 1.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sync-post-with-other-site/trunk/includes/sps_sync.class.php#L231
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3128945/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3d97eee1-0f72-4dd3-998a-acb454fa5e8a?source=cve

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