WPC Admin Columns <= 2.3.3 — Information Exposure to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User/Post/Term Meta Disclosure
CVE-2026-18943Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.3.3Update to 2.3.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-200 Information Exposure
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WPC Admin Columns wpc-admin-columns
- Affected≤ 2.3.3
- Patched in2.3.4
Update to 2.3.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3.3. Version 2.3.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPC Admin Columns.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.3.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WPC Admin Columns to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Farid Narimanov.
The WPC Admin Columns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This is due to missing capability checks before returning term, user, and post meta via AJAX endpoints accessible to any authenticated user. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read arbitrary term, user, and post meta values belonging to any object by exploiting missing capability checks on meta retrieval AJAX handlers.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in WPC Admin Columns
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | 2.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update 2.0.6 – 2.1.0Update to 2.1.1 | CVE-2025-3418 |
- High8.82.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update
2.0.6 – 2.1.0Update to 2.1.1
Same weakness (Information Exposure)
All Information Exposure| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.
