WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher < 2.8.27 - Contributor+ Post Publication and Author Spoofing via Campaign Settings

Description

The plugin does not verify that a user running a feed campaign is permitted to publish content or to attribute posts to another account, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to publish posts live and set any registered user, including an administrator, as the post author.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.8.27

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Submitter
Karthik Ramakrishnan
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-25 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-25 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-25 (about 1 day ago)

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