CVE-2023-4792
Duplicate Post Page Menu & Custom Post Type <= 2.3.1 - Missing Authorization to Post Duplication
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Duplicate Post Page Menu & Custom Post Type plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized page and post duplication due to a missing capability check on the duplicate_ppmc_post_as_draft function in versions up to, and including, 2.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber access or higher to duplicate posts and pages.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
inqsys · Duplicate Post Page Menu & Custom Post Type
- affected ≤ 2.3.1
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6bb08e8-9ef5-41db-a111-c377a5dfae77?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duplicate-post-page-menu-custom-post-type/trunk/duplicate-post-page-menu-cpt.php?rev=2871256#L383 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2963515%40duplicate-post-page-menu-custom-post-type&new=2963515%40duplicate-post-page-menu-custom-post-type&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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