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CVE-2025-12980: Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX <= 5.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2025-12-21 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the '/ultp/v2/get_dynamic_content/' REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive user metadata, including password hashes.

Affected products

• WPXPO PostX: through 5.0.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3421729/ultimate-post/trunk/classes/Blocks.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e85ff3b3-de41-4ac4-b825-b3238725ca44?source=cve

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