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

Fixed in 3.8.6

References

Classification

Type
SENSITIVE DATA DISCLOSURE
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Ananda Dhakal
Verified
No

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)

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