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WordPress Core 4.9.0 — 7.1.3 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure via Customizer Changesets

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Action summary

Affected: ≤7.1.3Update to 4.9.35 or 5.0.31 or 5.1.28 or 5.2.30 or 5.3.27 or 5.4.25 or 5.5.24 or 5.6.23 or 5.7.21 or 5.8.19 or 5.9.20 or 6.0.18 or 6.1.16 or 6.2.15 or 6.3.14 or 6.4.14 or 6.5.14 or 6.6.11 or 6.7.11 or 6.8.12 or 6.9.11 or 7.0.8 or 7.1.4 or newer

Fixed versions are per release branch: update to the fix for the branch you run.

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-200 Information Exposure
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

WordPress wordpress

  1. Affected≤ 7.1.3
  2. Patched in4.9.35 / 5.0.31 / 5.1.28 / 5.2.30 / 5.3.27 / 5.4.25 / 5.5.24 / 5.6.23 / 5.7.21 / 5.8.19 / 5.9.20 / 6.0.18 / 6.1.16 / 6.2.15 / 6.3.14 / 6.4.14 / 6.5.14 / 6.6.11 / 6.7.11 / 6.8.12 / 6.9.11 / 7.0.8 / 7.1.4

Update to 4.9.35 / 5.0.31 / 5.1.28 / 5.2.30 / 5.3.27 / 5.4.25 / 5.5.24 / 5.6.23 / 5.7.21 / 5.8.19 / 5.9.20 / 6.0.18 / 6.1.16 / 6.2.15 / 6.3.14 / 6.4.14 / 6.5.14 / 6.6.11 / 6.7.11 / 6.8.12 / 6.9.11 / 7.0.8 / 7.1.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.1.3. Version 4.9.35, 5.0.31, 5.1.28, 5.2.30, 5.3.27, 5.4.25, 5.5.24, 5.6.23, 5.7.21, 5.8.19, 5.9.20, 6.0.18, 6.1.16, 6.2.15, 6.3.14, 6.4.14, 6.5.14, 6.6.11, 6.7.11, 6.8.12, 6.9.11, 7.0.8, 7.1.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WordPress.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 4.9.35, 5.0.31, 5.1.28, 5.2.30, 5.3.27, 5.4.25, 5.5.24, 5.6.23, 5.7.21, 5.8.19, 5.9.20, 6.0.18, 6.1.16, 6.2.15, 6.3.14, 6.4.14, 6.5.14, 6.6.11, 6.7.11, 6.8.12, 6.9.11, 7.0.8, 7.1.4
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Antonio Lorensius Silaban.

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions 4.9 through 7.1.3 because an unauthenticated Customizer preview request without a changeset UUID can adopt the latest unpublished changeset. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view unpublished Customizer state when an affected changeset exists.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Same weakness (Information Exposure)

All Information Exposure
Other Information Exposure vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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