WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advance Guest Post <= 1.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

Description

The plugin does not perform any authorization or ownership check when deleting media attachments, relying only on a nonce exposed to every site visitor, allowing unauthenticated users to permanently delete arbitrary Media Library attachments and their files.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala
Submitter
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-11 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-11 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-11 (about 1 day ago)

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