CVE-2024-12071
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Evergreen Content Poster – Auto Post and Schedule Your Best Content to Social Media plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2024-12071) discovered in January 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.4.4, where a missing capability check on the deletenetworkpost() function allows unauthorized access (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Missing Authorization issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and no required privileges or user interaction (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary posts and pages from WordPress sites running the affected plugin versions. This can result in unauthorized loss of content and potential disruption of website operations (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to version 1.4.5 or later of the Evergreen Content Poster plugin, which contains the fix for this vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources


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