The Beyondseo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in versions up to, and including, 1.3.6. This is due to the plugin permanently granting the 'rankingcoach_write_redirectManager' (and sibling rankingcoach_write_* module capabilities) to the Contributor role via BaseModule::defineCapabilities(), whose default role list includes 'contributor', combined with the module's REST endpoints (registered through BaseSubmoduleApi::registerRouteCreate/registerRouteEdit/registerRouteDelete) authorizing state-changing requests solely through checkPermissionsPost(), which only calls current_user_can('rankingcoach_write_<module>') and performs no admin capability, ownership, or additional nonce check inside the callback. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to effectively that of an Administrator with respect to site-wide redirect management — creating, updating, or deleting 301/302 redirects that RedirectManagerHooks::handleRedirects() executes for every frontend visitor on template_redirect, allowing hijacking of arbitrary paths (including /checkout, /wp-login.
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 4
- StatusPublished → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-28 13:46
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-28 06:45
- StatusPublished → ReceivedNVD modified 2026-10-28 07:16
- First seenCVSS 6.3 · rankingcoachNVD modified 2026-10-28 06:45
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleBase/BaseModule.php#L249
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleBase/BaseSubmoduleApi.php#L289
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManager.php#L67
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManagerApi.php#L266
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManagerHooks.php#L51
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722492%40beyondseo&new=3722492%40beyondseo
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd4b2396-288f-45e6-b911-b017dc8d0526?source=cve