Content Egg <= 12.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Administrator-Authored Post Creation via 'preset_id' Parameter
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- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The Content Egg WordPress plugin (affiliate product importer and price comparison tool), in all versions up to and including 12.0.0, is affected. An authenticated user with author-level access or higher can exploit a missing authorization check to publish or create posts that are attributed to an administrator's account, allowing lower-privileged users to publish content that appears to come from an administrator.
Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.
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The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 12.0.0 This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to create posts attributed to another user's account — typically an administrator — by supplying an admin-owned preset_id, causing wp_insert_post to record the administrator as post_author. This includes the ability to create published posts when the attacker already holds publish_posts capability for the preset's post type, resulting in administrator-attributed published content created by a lower-privileged user.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- keywordrush Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
through 12.0.0
References 6
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php#L146
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php#L65
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ProductImportService.php#L991
- browser/content-egg/tags/12.0.0/application/admin/import/ProductImportService.php#L1003
- changeset/3773366/content-egg/trunk/application/admin/import/ImportQueueApi.php