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CVE-2026-3454: GenerateBlocks <= 2.2.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Dynamic Tag Replacements
- 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: 2026-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-639
Description
The GenerateBlocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to missing object-level authorization checks in the /wp-json/generateblocks/v1/dynamic-tag-replacements REST endpoint. The endpoint only verifies that the user has the edit_posts capability but does not verify the user has permission to access the specific post or its associated data referenced by attacker-controlled id parameters in dynamic tag content. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive information from arbitrary posts including author email addresses and non-protected post meta values by crafting dynamic tag payloads such as {{post_meta id:<target>|key:<meta_key>}} and {{post_title id:<target>|link:author_email}}.
Affected products
- edge22 GenerateBlocks: through 2.2.0
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/class-meta-handler.php#L335
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tag-callbacks.php#L364
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tag-callbacks.php#L64
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L392
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L424
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L501
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3495827%40generateblocks%2Ftrunk&old=3415721%40generateblocks%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0297d524-e016-4f8d-920c-d58c62edb2a0?source=cve
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