CVE-2025-13215: Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme <= 2.17.13 - Unauthenticated Draft Posts Information Exposure

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2026-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.17.13 via the auxels_ajax_search due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract titles of draft posts that they should not have access to.

Affected products

averta Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme: through 2.17.13

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/tags/2.17.12/public/includes/frontend-ajax.php#L348
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f47ab91-7d91-4231-91ef-66c556ad8496?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2025-13215 or the next vulnerability affects your stack