WordPress CVEs

Description

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 20260113. This is due to the `usp_get_submitted_category()` function accepting user-submitted category IDs from the POST body without validating them against the admin-configured allowed categories stored in `usp_options['categories']`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to assign submitted posts to arbitrary categories, including restricted ones, by crafting a direct POST request with manipulated `user-submitted-category[]` values, bypassing the frontend category restrictions.

Affected WordPress components

• User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End Plugin · user-submitted-posts
  Confirmed match Active
  Up to and including 20260113
  View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

• specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End — Up to and including 20260113

References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/tags/20260113/user-submitted-posts.php#L1431
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-submitted-posts/tags/20260113/user-submitted-posts.php#L298
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3463696%40user-submitted-posts%2Ftrunk&old=3456521%40user-submitted-posts%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/02c5e3ad-5cc3-40b1-a15a-10d53383abe6?source=cve
• nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record