vulnerability

WordPress Theme: squaretype: CVE-2021-24840: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 11, 2021
Added
Dec 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 8, 2025

Description

The Squaretype WordPress theme before 3.0.4 allows unauthenticated users to manipulate the query_vars used to retrieve the posts to display in one of its REST endpoint, without any validation. As a result, private and scheduled posts could be retrieved via a crafted request.

Solution

squaretype-theme-cve-2021-24840
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