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CVE-2026-2233: User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration <= 4.2.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Modification via 'post_id' Parameter
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: 2026-03-16 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the draft_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary posts (e.g. unpublish published posts and overwrite the contents) via the 'post_id' parameter.
Affected products
- wedevs User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Posting, User Directory, Profile, Membership & User Registration: through 4.2.8
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3468395/wp-user-frontend
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0a278a3-f229-4673-8b3e-5b68f383dcc7?source=cve
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