CVE-2025-12980 (GCVE-0-2025-12980)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-21 02:20 – Updated: 2025-12-21 02:20
VLAI?
Title
Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX <= 5.0.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
Summary
The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the '/ultp/v2/get_dynamic_content/' REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve sensitive user metadata, including password hashes.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wpxpo | Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites – PostX |
Affected:
* , ≤ 5.0.3
(semver)
|
Credits
Marcin Dudek
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Sightings
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