CVE-2026-3550RockPress <= 1.0.17 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Modification via AJAX Actions
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.43%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 63% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The RockPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.17. This is due to missing capability checks on multiple AJAX actions (rockpress_import, rockpress_import_status, rockpress_last_import, rockpress_reset_import, and rockpress_check_services) combined with the plugin's nonce being exposed to all authenticated users via an unconditionally enqueued admin script. The plugin enqueues the 'rockpress-admin' script on all admin pages (including profile.php) without any page or capability restrictions, and the nonce for the 'rockpress-nonce' action is passed to this script via wp_localize_script. Since the AJAX handlers only verify this nonce and do not check current_user_can(), any authenticated user, including Subscribers, can extract the nonce from any admin page's HTML source and use it to trigger imports, reset import data (deleting options), check service connectivity, and read import status information. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger resource-intensive import operations, reset import tracking data, and perform system connection checks that should be restricted to administrators.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 19 days later
· 19 days 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 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
References
References16
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d5031631-9f12-47d3-997d-4418d348ab40?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L206 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L206 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L125 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L125 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L145 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L145 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L184 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/class-rockpress-import.php#L184 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/admin/admin-ajax.php#L33 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/admin/admin-ajax.php#L33 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/admin/admin-scripts.php#L88 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/admin/admin-scripts.php#L88 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/trunk/includes/admin/admin-scripts.php#L50 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ft-rockpress/tags/1.0.17/includes/admin/admin-scripts.php#L50 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3477205%40ft-rockpress&new=3477205%40ft-rockpress&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-2026-13655 (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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