Duplicate Post, Page and Any Custom Post <= 3.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Disclosure via Post Duplication

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2024-12538
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 6, 2025
Last Updated January 30, 2025
Researcher Webbernaut
Description

The Duplicate Post, Page and Any Custom Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.5 via the 'dpp_duplicate_as_draft' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract potentially sensitive data from draft, scheduled (future), private, and password protected posts.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug duplicate-pp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.5
Patched Version
  • 3.5.6
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