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CVE-2026-11454: Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation <= 4.5.2 - Insecure Direct Object Reference
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-05 · updated 2026-08-12
- Weakness: CWE-639
Description
The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.2 via the GET /wp-json/gh/v4/contacts/<id> REST endpoint. The endpoint's permission callback checks only the role-level view_contacts capability and read_single() returns the full contact record by sequential integer ID without the object-level view_contact ownership check applied elsewhere in the codebase. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers holding view_contacts but not view_others_contacts — notably Groundhogg's built-in Sales Rep role, designed to see only its own contacts — to read any contact record on the site, including PII, contact meta, owner IDs, the admin edit URL, and (for contacts linked to a WordPress user) that user's full capability set.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/api/v4/base-object-api.php#L124
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/api/v4/contacts-api.php#L426
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/api/v4/contacts-api.php#L946
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/includes/main-roles.php#L163
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/includes/main-roles.php#L374
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.2/includes/main-roles.php#L43
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/groundhogg/tags/4.5.3/api/v4/contacts-api.php#L437
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3569222%40groundhogg%2Ftags%2F4.5.3&old=3562726%40groundhogg%2Ftags%2F4.5.2
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7fe3d251-4edf-4d94-a946-0aa918135784?source=cve
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