Classified Listing exposes store revenue totals to Contributors
Classified Listing before 5.4.4 omits a capability check from an AJAX action that returns aggregated daily store-revenue totals. Any Contributor-or-higher user can call the action and read figures intended for Administrators and report managers. The CNA record does not disclose the AJAX action, date parameters, callback or response fields.
- Component
- Classified Listing
- Plugin slug
classified-listing- Affected
- < 5.4.4
- Safe version
5.4.4- Published
- Aug 03, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Aug 03, 2026 and is one of 27 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Classified Listing to 5.4.4 or later. Review access by delegated content authors and treat disclosed store-revenue figures according to their business sensitivity.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Classified Listing WordPress plugin before 5.4.4 does not perform a capability check on an AJAX action that returns aggregated store revenue totals, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to read daily revenue figures normally restricted to administrators and report managers.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N