Post Duplicator <= 2.36 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Protected Post Disclosure

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2024-12472
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published January 10, 2025
Last Updated January 23, 2025
Researcher Webbernaut
Description

The Post Duplicator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.36 via the mtphr_duplicate_post() function due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be duplicated. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to by duplicating the post.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug post-duplicator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.36
Patched Version
  • 2.37
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