WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Polylang < 3.8.6 - Contributor+ Private Post Disclosure via Row Update AJAX Actions
Description
The plugin does not verify that the requesting user is permitted to read the posts and terms it renders in its row-update AJAX responses. The handlers collected caller-supplied IDs and rendered each record through the list-table row renderer without any post-status or capability filtering, so a user with Contributor-level access and above could obtain the rendered rows of posts they are not entitled to read, including private ones.
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
SENSITIVE DATA DISCLOSURE
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Ananda Dhakal
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-07-22 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-07-29 (about 25 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-29 (about 25 days ago)