What is CVE-2026-118187?

CVE-2026-118187 is a low-severity vulnerability in Publishpress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve And Schedule Content Changes, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2026-11-06.

How severe is CVE-2026-118187?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Publishpress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve And Schedule Content Changes

CVE-2026-118187

The PublishPress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve and Schedule Content Changes WordPress plugin before 4.3.1 does not verify that a user requesting to duplicate or revise a post has access to that specific post, only that they can edit posts of that type, allowing users with contributor-level access and above to duplicate another user's private, draft, pending or scheduled post into one they own and read its full content.

Vulnerability class: IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference)

Published 2026-11-06 · last modified 2026-11-06.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 2.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Publishpress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve And Schedule Content Changes

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c448c858-c5f1-4430-b032-076726715916/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-118187?: CVE-2026-118187 is a low-severity vulnerability in Publishpress Revisions: Duplicate Posts, Submit, Approve And Schedule Content Changes, classified under Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. CVSS score: 2.7/10. Published 2026-11-06.
How severe is CVE-2026-118187?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.7 out of 10.