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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 5
- StatusPublished → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-22 17:39
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:38
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- CVSS5.3 (v4.0, CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) → 5.3 (v4.0, CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)NVD modified 2026-10-21 14:17
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · wpdeveloperNVD modified 2026-10-21 12:39
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://github.com/WPDevelopers/wp-scheduled-posts/blob/v5.3.4/includes/Admin.php#L1276-L1521
- https://github.com/WPDevelopers/wp-scheduled-posts/commit/0e7af0fcbf0851687c34db2997117032978dbe06
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-scheduled-posts/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/schedulepress-before-5.3.5-missing-authorization-via-wpsp-el-editor-form-ajax-action