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WordPress Popular Posts

WordPress Popular Posts (wordpress-popular-posts) is a WordPress plugin with 7 published CVE records in this archive. The latest tracked vulnerability was published Oct 01, 2026; the highest published CVSS base score is 8.8.

Plugin slug: wordpress-popular-posts

Latest vulnerability

CVE-2026-92548: WP Popular Posts: Sensitive information exposure

The WP Popular Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 via the 'context' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive edit-context fields — including raw title, raw content body, password, meta, status, and guid — from non-public post objects such as wp_block synced patterns that WordPress core itself refuses to expose to unauthenticated callers. This is possible because the plugin's REST route is registered with a permission_callback of __return_true and passes the caller-supplied context parameter (e.g., context=edit) directly to WP_REST_Posts_Controller::prepare_item_for_response() without invoking get_item_permissions_check() or check_read_permission(), while the underlying query accepts an arbitrary post_type value without enforcing public or show_in_rest visibility flags.

PublishedOct 01, 2026

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Published vulnerabilities for wordpress-popular-posts
		Safe version
Oct 01, 2026	CVE-2026-92548 WP Popular Posts: Sensitive information exposure The WP Popular Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 via the 'context' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive edit-context fields — including raw title, raw content body, password, meta, status, and guid — from non-public post objects such as wp_block synced patterns that WordPress core itself refuses to expose to unauthenticated callers. This is possible because the plugin's REST route is registered with a permission_callback of __return_true and passes the caller-supplied context parameter (e.g., context=edit) directly to WP_REST_Posts_Controller::prepare_item_for_response() without invoking get_item_permissions_check() or check_read_permission(), while the underlying query accepts an arbitrary post_type value without enforcing public or show_in_rest visibility flags.	See mitigation notes	CVE5.3 NVDPending
Jan 03, 2025	CVE-2024-11733 The WordPress Popular Posts: A security weakness The WordPress Popular Posts 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.	See mitigation notes	CVE7.3 NVDPending
Oct 18, 2023	CVE-2023-45607 Wordpress Popular Posts: Cross-site scripting Wordpress Popular Posts is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.5 NVD5.4
Dec 07, 2022	CVE-2022-43468 Wordpress Popular Posts: A security weakness Wordpress Popular Posts is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.	See mitigation notes	CVE7.5 NVD7.5
Nov 17, 2021	CVE-2021-42362 WordPress Popular Posts: Dangerous file upload WordPress Popular Posts is affected by dangerous file upload. Exploitation requires an authenticated contributor account. Successful exploitation can place attacker-controlled executable content on the server and may lead to full site compromise.	See mitigation notes	CVE8.8 NVD6.5
Sep 23, 2021	CVE-2021-36872 Wordpress Popular Posts: Cross-site scripting Wordpress Popular Posts is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE5.5 NVD5.4
Jun 28, 2021	CVE-2021-20746 Wordpress Popular Posts: Cross-site scripting Wordpress Popular Posts is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVEPending NVD5.4

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