Medium
Security advisory
The Get Custom Field Values WordPress plugin before 4.0 allows users with a role as low as Contributor to access other posts metadata without validating the permissions. Eg. contributors can access admin posts metadata.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-24872
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Get Custom Field Values WordPress plugin before 4.0 allows users with a role as low as Contributor to access other posts metadata without validating the permissions. Eg. contributors can access admin posts metadata.
osv:CVE-2021-24872
Complete source record
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