The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 20260113. This is due to the `usp_get_submitted_category()` function accepting user-submitted category IDs from the POST body without validating them against the admin-configured allowed categories stored in `usp_options['categories']`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to assign submitted posts to arbitrary categories, including restricted ones, by crafting a direct POST request with manipulated `user-submitted-category[]` values, bypassing the frontend category restrictions.
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Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:30:00 +0000
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| Description | The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 20260113. This is due to the `usp_get_submitted_category()` function accepting user-submitted category IDs from the POST body without validating them against the admin-configured allowed categories stored in `usp_options['categories']`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to assign submitted posts to arbitrary categories, including restricted ones, by crafting a direct POST request with manipulated `user-submitted-category[]` values, bypassing the frontend category restrictions. | |
| Title | User Submitted Posts <= 20260113 - Incorrect Authorization to Unauthenticated Category Restriction Bypass via 'user-submitted-category' Parameter | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
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Updated: 2026-02-18T09:25:51.296Z
Reserved: 2026-02-06T18:37:48.354Z
Link: CVE-2026-2126
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-02-18T10:16:15.173
Modified: 2026-02-18T10:16:15.173
Link: CVE-2026-2126
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