WordPress theme
Bricks Builder <= 2.1.4 — Missing Authorization
CVE-2026-40723Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.1.4Update to 2.2 or newer
All remediation stepsMedium4.3CVSS 3.14.3CISA KEVNot listedAccessLow-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2026-40723
- Product
- Bricks bricks
- Affected
- ≤2.1.4
- Fixed in
- 2.2
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Low-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Phat RiO
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 2.1.4
- Patched in2.2
Update to 2.2 or newer.
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
The Bricks Builder theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 2.1.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 2.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 6.1CVE-2026-41554Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- 7.5CVE-2025-6495Unauthenticated SQL Injection via `p` Parameter
- 7.1CVE-2024-2297Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation via create_autosave
- 5.4CVE-2023-3410Authenticated (Bricks Page Builder Access+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 5.4CVE-2023-3409Cross-Site Request Forgery via reset_settings
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
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.