CVE-2024-5326
Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX <= 4.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'postx_presets_callback' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to change arbitrary options on affected sites. This can be used to enable new user registration and set the default role for new users to Administrator.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
wpxpo · Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX
- affected ≤ 4.1.2
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07a3db33-3787-4b63-835d-8e3026206842?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/trunk/classes/Styles.php#L160 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/trunk/classes/Styles.php#L177 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3093815/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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