CVE-2026-1217

Medium

Description

The Yoast Duplicate Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the clone_bulk_action_handler() and republish_request() functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to duplicate any post on the site including private, draft, and trashed posts they shouldn't have access to. Additionally, attackers with Author-level access and above can use the Rewrite & Republish feature to overwrite any published post with their own content.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.4
Exploit probability—
ProductYoast/duplicate-post
PublishedMar 18, 2026
First seenMar 18, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • yoast/duplicate-post4.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
yoast/duplicate-postPackagistv < 4.64.6

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