SchedulePress <= 5.0.4 — Insufficient Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Modifications
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Affected: ≤5.0.4Update to 5.0.5 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: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
- Weakness
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher wp-scheduled-posts
- Affected≤ 5.0.4
- Patched in5.0.5
Update to 5.0.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.0.4. Version 5.0.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 5.0.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.
The SchedulePress – Best Editorial Calendar, Missed Schedule & Auto Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to improper capability checks on several REST API endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to edit other's posts and delete other's posts.
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 SchedulePress – Auto Post & Publish, Auto Social Share, Schedule Posts with Editorial Calendar & Missed Schedule Post Publisher
All 4| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization <5.3.5No patch available | CVE-2026-114120 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure ≤5.1.3Update to 5.1.4 | CVE-2024-6557 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.0.8Update to 5.0.9 | CVE-2024-32717 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
<5.3.5No patch available
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Full Path Disclosure
≤5.1.3Update to 5.1.4
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤5.0.8Update to 5.0.9
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
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.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.