CVE-2026-114120 (GCVE-0-2026-114120)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-21 12:39
Modified
2026-10-21 13:38
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
Summary
SchedulePress before 5.3.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated Contributor-level users to change any post's status and publish date via the wpsp_el_editor_form AJAX action. Attackers can reuse the wpsp-el-editor nonce from the Elementor modal to unpublish or reschedule administrator posts, or publish other users' pending or draft posts.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
WPDeveloper SchedulePress Version: 0   ≤
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