Medium
Security advisory
The createComment mutation in the WPGraphQL 0.2.3 plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated users to post comments on any article, even when 'allow comment' is disabled.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-9881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The createComment mutation in the WPGraphQL 0.2.3 plugin for WordPress allows unauthenticated users to post comments on any article, even when 'allow comment' is disabled.
osv:CVE-2019-9881
Complete source record
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"https://github.com/pentestpartners/snippets/blob/master/wp-graphql0.2.3_exploit.py",
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