Security advisory
Textpattern CMS 4.9.0 contains a Broken Access Control vulnerability in the article management system that allows authenticated users with low privileges to modify articles owned by users with higher privileges. By manipulating the article ID parameter during the duplicate-and-save workflow in textpattern/include/txp_article.php, an attacker can bypass authorization checks and overwrite content belonging to other users.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2026-30452
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 01:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Textpattern CMS 4.9.0 contains a Broken Access Control vulnerability in the article management system that allows authenticated users with low privileges to modify articles owned by users with higher privileges. By manipulating the article ID parameter during the duplicate-and-save workflow in textpattern/include/txp_article.php, an attacker can bypass authorization checks and overwrite content belonging to other users.
osv:CVE-2026-30452
Complete source record
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