CVE-2026-114120

medium

SchedulePress before 5.3.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated Contributor-level users to change any post's status and pub…

SchedulePress before 5.3.5 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows authenticated Contributor-level users to change any post's status and publish date via the wpsp_el_editor_form AJAX action. Attackers can reuse the wpsp-el-editor nonce from the Elementor modal to unpublish or reschedule administrator posts, or publish other users' pending or draft posts.

CVSS

5.4

5.4 (CVSS v3.1)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (disclosure@vulncheck.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2026-10-21 13:18

Modified: 2026-10-22 17:39

NVD status: Awaiting Analysis

Last synced 2 days ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:05 UTC

Exploitation

Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)

Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

https://github.com/WPDevelopers/wp-scheduled-posts/blob/v5.3.4/includes/Admin.php#L1276-L1... disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://github.com/WPDevelopers/wp-scheduled-posts/commit/0e7af0fcbf0851687c34db2997117032... disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-scheduled-posts/ disclosure@vulncheck.com
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/schedulepress-before-5.3.5-missing-authorization-via-... disclosure@vulncheck.com

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:05 UTC · record ↗

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