Missing authorization in AI Alt Text Generator lets attackers edit attachments
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The AI Alt Text Generator plugin for WordPress, by migkapa, is affected in all versions up to and including 2.7.0. Due to a missing authorization check (CWE-862), unauthenticated attackers can modify the alt text, and optionally the title, caption, and description, of attachments owned by other users. Exploitation requires a Contributor-level account to obtain a nonce from the page source of post.php, post-new.php, or upload.php, and overwriting post title, excerpt, or content requires the plugin's set_title, set_caption, or set_description options to be enabled.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Description from the CNA
The AI Alt Text Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the alt text, and optionally the title, caption, and description of arbitrary attachments owned by other users. Exploiting this vulnerability requires a Contributor-level account to retrieve the nonce from the page source of post.php, post-new.php, or upload.php; additionally, overwriting post_title, post_excerpt, and post_content requires the plugin's set_title, set_caption, or set_description options to be enabled.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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
The sources list no fixed version for AI Alt Text Generator.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-03
Timeline
- 2026-11-03 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-120578
- 2026-11-03 Alias added: GHSA-5r5r-rf5q-8h3p
- 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa4741fa-0871-4f23-b164-94f5e94f5712?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/admin/class-ai-alt-text-generator-admin.php#L585
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-ai-alt-text-generator.php#L175
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/includes/functions.php#L249
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3767321%40ai-alt-text-generator&new=3767321%40ai-alt-text-generator
Sources
- CVE-2026-120578 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-120578 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5r5r-rf5q-8h3p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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