CVE-2026-3454GenerateBlocks <= 2.2.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Dynamic Tag Replacements
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.54%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The GenerateBlocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to missing object-level authorization checks in the /wp-json/generateblocks/v1/dynamic-tag-replacements REST endpoint. The endpoint only verifies that the user has the edit_posts capability but does not verify the user has permission to access the specific post or its associated data referenced by attacker-controlled id parameters in dynamic tag content. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive information from arbitrary posts including author email addresses and non-protected post meta values by crafting dynamic tag payloads such as {{post_meta id:<target>|key:<meta_key>}} and {{post_title id:<target>|link:author_email}}.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
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 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (12 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 6.5.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 2.2.0
References
References8
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0297d524-e016-4f8d-920c-d58c62edb2a0?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L424 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L501 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tag-callbacks.php#L64 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tag-callbacks.php#L364 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/class-meta-handler.php#L335 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/generateblocks/tags/2.2.0/includes/dynamic-tags/class-dynamic-tags.php#L392 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3495827%40generateblocks%2Ftrunk&old=3415721%40generateblocks%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-27225 (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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