Missing authorization in webvitaly Page-list
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Page-list plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 6.2. This is due to the pagelist_unqprfx_ext_shortcode() function (the [pagelist_ext] / [pagelistext] shortcode) accepting attacker-controlled post_status, post_type, and show_meta_key attributes and passing them directly into get_pages() and get_post_meta() with no capability check verifying that the rendering user is permitted to read the matched objects. When the current post has no child pages, the shortcode re-issues the query with child_of => 0, broadening it to every page on the site matching the supplied status/type. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to disclose the titles, body content/excerpts, and arbitrary post meta of unrelated private and draft pages by inserting the shortcode into a contributor-authored draft and previewing it.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-9008
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9p43-w7wv-jv6w
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22defe19-28ac-43b3-814d-5a2038380adb?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-list/tags/5.9/page-list.php#L301
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-list/tags/5.9/page-list.php#L303
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-list/tags/5.9/page-list.php#L383
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-list/tags/5.9/page-list.php#L188
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3552931%40page-list&new=3552931%40page-list&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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Sources
- CVE-2026-9008 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-9008 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9p43-w7wv-jv6w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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