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CVE-2026-118065

Advance Guest Post <= 1.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion

No exploitation reported by the sources we read.

  • Published2026-11-13
  • WeaknessCWE-862

Am I affected?

With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.

Description

The Advance Guest Post WordPress plugin through 1.9 does not perform any authorization or ownership check when deleting media attachments, relying only on a nonce exposed to every site visitor, allowing unauthenticated users to permanently delete arbitrary Media Library attachments and their files.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2026-11-1306:00CVE publishedCNA

Versions per branch

Products declared by the CNA

As WPScan, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written. NVD lists no product for this CVE yet: this is the only product data so far.

  • Unknown Advance Guest Postother versions: unknown
    Affected
    • ≤ 1.9no fix statedsemver

Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2026-11-13

Neither OSV.dev nor the vendor advisories we read list affected versions for CVE-2026-118065 yet.

Full record on NVD

Fix

No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record

Detection

Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Metasploit modules
none listed
Metasploit Framework

Sources

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Published
2026-11-13
Last Modified
2026-11-13
NVD status
Deferred
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-xcqr-f8gx-c54m

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-118065?

The Advance Guest Post WordPress plugin through 1.9 does not perform any authorization or ownership check when deleting media attachments, relying only on a nonce exposed to every site visitor, allowing unauthenticated users to permanently delete arbitrary Media Library attachments and their files.

Is CVE-2026-118065 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2026-118065 has not been confirmed.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2026-118065?

CVE-2026-118065 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

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