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Delete Duplicate Posts <= 4.8.9 — Missing Authorization via AJAX Actions

CVE-2023-47754Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <4.9Update to 4.9 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Delete Duplicate Posts delete-duplicate-posts

  1. Affected< 4.9
  2. Patched in4.9

Update to 4.9 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 4.9. Version 4.9 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Delete Duplicate Posts.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 4.9, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Delete Duplicate Posts to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Huynh Tien Si.

The Delete Duplicate Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized deletion of data due to a missing capability check on some of its AJAX actions in all versions up to 4.9 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to delete duplicate posts, access plugin logs, and opt in to Freemius data gathering.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Delete Duplicate Posts

All 4
More vulnerabilities in Delete Duplicate Posts
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get
≤1.9.2No patch available
CVE-2023-33999
Medium6.3Missing Authorization Checks
all versionsNo patch available
CVE-2022-4974
High8.8Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update
<3.1.7Update to 3.1.7
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Same weakness (Missing Authorization)

All Missing Authorization
Other Missing Authorization 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 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
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