Auth bypass in Wpblockart Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder With Posts Blocks, Post Grid

CVE-2026-75017

The Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder with Posts Blocks, Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to demote administrator-owned published builder templates (header, footer, front page, single, archive, 404, and search) to draft status and replace them with attacker-authored block content rendered site-wide, enabling defacement, phishing, and SEO spam. This is possible because the mzb-builder-template post type is registered with capability_type='post' and exposed via the REST API, and the _mzb_template meta key is accessible to any user with edit_posts capability, meaning Contributor-level users and above can trigger the vulnerable save_post() hook.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-75017?
CVE-2026-75017 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpblockart Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder With Posts Blocks, Post Grid, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2026-75017?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.