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WordPress Plugin: document-emberdder: CVE-2021-24868: Improper Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 3, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Document Embedder WordPress plugin before 1.7.9 contains a AJAX action endpoint, which could allow any authenticated user, such as subscriber to enumerate the title of arbitrary private and draft posts.

Solution

document-emberdder-plugin-cve-2021-24868
Title
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