Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories: A security weakness
Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
- Plugin slug
post-expirator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 16, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Dec 16, 2025 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories 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 Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getAuthors function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve emails for all users with edit_posts capability.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N