CVE-2026-12434
List category posts <= 0.95.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via 'post_status' Shortcode Attribute
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The List category posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 0.95.0 via the sanitize_status. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract titles, full content, excerpts, dates, authors, and custom-field metadata of other users' pending-review, scheduled, and trashed posts by embedding a crafted [catlist] shortcode in their own draft and previewing it. This vulnerability is a bypass of the incomplete fix introduced for CVE-2025-11377 in version 0.93.0.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
fernandobt · List category posts
- affected ≤ 0.95.0
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3477baf1-71ef-44f3-938f-3e7d710e9df6?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-category-posts/tags/0.95.0/include/lcp-catlist.php#L623 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-category-posts/tags/0.95.0/include/lcp-catlist.php#L94 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-category-posts/tags/0.95.0/include/lcp-parameters.php#L208 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/list-category-posts/tags/0.95.0/list-category-posts.php#L184 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3598587%40list-category-posts&new=3598587%40list-category-posts (opens in a new tab)
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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