Sceawere
Vulnerability Detail
CVE-2026-88974 Verified Sceawere Triage Sources: NVD / CISA KEV
Vulnerability Metadata
- Severity
- Medium
- Score / CVSS
- 5.4
- Creation Date
- 3h ago
- Vendor
- wp-graphql
- Product
- wp-graphql
- Attack Type
- CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
- Vector String
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Attack Complexity
- LOW
Narrative and Response
Description
WPGraphQL provides a GraphQL API for WordPress sites. Prior to 2.22.2, the updatePost mutation in src/Mutation/PostObjectUpdate.php checks only the collection-level edit_posts capability and the post author, but does not enforce the object-level edit_post capability or require publish_posts for public status transitions. An authenticated Contributor can therefore publish the Contributor's own draft without editorial approval or modify the Contributor's previously published post despite lacking edit_published_posts, while posts owned by other authors remain protected. This issue is fixed in version 2.22.2.
Executive Summary
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Technical Details
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Mitigations
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References
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Additional Metadata
{
"score": "5.4",
"pubDate": "2026-09-23T15:17:23.893Z",
"pubdate": "2026-09-23T15:17:23.893Z"
}