Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media: A security weakness
Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media
- Plugin slug
evergreen-content-poster- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 18, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jan 18, 2025 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
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.
Technical description
The Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the delete_network_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts and pages.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N