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CVE-2026-119087: Content Egg <= 12.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Administrator-Authored Post Creation via 'preset_id' Parameter
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-30 · updated 2026-10-30
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 12.0.0 This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to create posts attributed to another user's account — typically an administrator — by supplying an admin-owned preset_id, causing wp_insert_post to record the administrator as post_author. This includes the ability to create published posts when the attacker already holds publish_posts capability for the preset's post type, resulting in administrator-attributed published content created by a lower-privileged user.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php#L146
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ProductImportService.php#L1003
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ProductImportService.php#L991
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3773366/content-egg/trunk/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e179f0fc-6943-4e3b-9346-4604bd9c85bc?source=cve
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