WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-119087 Received

Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison: Unauthorized post attribution

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. The structured affected range is <= 12.0.0.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
Plugin slug
content-egg
Affected
<= 12.0.0
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Oct 30, 2026
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published Oct 30, 2026 and is one of 8 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Official author notes reviewed on 2026-10-30 through version 12.1.0 did not establish an exact fixed release for this CVE. Generic permission hardening does not identify preset-author attribution. This archive’s uncertainty does not establish that the current release remains vulnerable. Limit access to the affected functionality until a matching fix can be verified. Official author notes: https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-egg/#developers.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

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.

Source record

Technical 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.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources