CVE-2026-92548
WP Popular Posts <= 7.4.2 - Unauthenticated Information Disclosure in 'post_type' and 'context' Parameters
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days 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 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 75% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 7.4.2
References (7)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/09c63c2f-d2d3-4c39-8329-0e0e5b62db98?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/tags/7.4.2/src/Rest/PostsEndpoint.php#L96 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/tags/7.4.2/src/Rest/PostsEndpoint.php#L38 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/tags/7.4.2/src/Rest/PostsEndpoint.php#L51 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/tags/7.4.2/src/Query.php#L421 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3715724/wordpress-popular-posts/trunk (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3715724/wordpress-popular-posts/trunk/src/Rest/PostsEndpoint.php (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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