WebPurify Profanity Filter <= 4.0.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Change via webpurify_save_options

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2026-0572
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published February 3, 2026
Last Updated February 13, 2026
Researcher 0x34rth
Description

The WebPurify Profanity Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'webpurify_save_options' function in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change plugin settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug webpurifytextreplace (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.0.2
Patched Version
  • 4.0.3
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