PLUGIN SECURITY
PublishPress Capabilities is the access control plugin. You can manage user capabilities, permissions, user roles, admin menus and more.
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3 known CVEs on file for PublishPress Capabilities. Reported between 2018 and 2026.
| CVE | Vulnerability | Type | Severity | Affected | Fixed in | Published | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-32394 | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.32.0 | Missing Authorization | Medium 4.3 | < 2.32.0 | 2.32.0 | 2026-02-20 | — |
| CVE-2022-3366 | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.5.2 | Deserialization of Untrusted Data | High 7.2 | < 2.5.2 | 2.5.2 | 2022-10-10 | — |
| — | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.3.3 | — | Unknown | < 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | 2022-01-13 | — |
| — | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.3.3 | — | Unknown | < 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | 2022-01-13 | — |
| CVE-2021-25032 | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.3.1 | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) | Critical 9.8 | < 2.3.1 | 2.3.1 | 2021-12-06 | — |
| — | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 1.5.9 | — | Unknown | < 1.5.9 | 1.5.9 | 2018-06-20 | — |
| — | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 2.3.3 | — | Unknown | < 2.3.3 | 2.3.3 | — | — |
| — | PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus [capability-manager-enhanced] < 1.5.9 | — | Unknown | < 1.5.9 | 1.5.9 | — | — |
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 2.31.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.
Source: Wordfence
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.5.1 via deserialization of untrusted input when processing an import file. This allows administrator-level attackers to inject a PHP Object. No POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.
Source: Wordfence
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via a form action URL in versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Source: Wordfence
Update the WordPress PublishPress Capabilities plugin to the latest available version (at least 2.3.3). WPScan discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress PublishPress Capabilities Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.3.3.
Source: Patchstack
The PublishPress Capabilities WordPress plugin before 2.3.1, PublishPress Capabilities Pro WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating the plugin's settings via the init hook, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could update arbitrary blog options, such as the default role and make any new registered user with an administrator role.
Source: CVE.org
The PublishPress Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via an unknown parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.5.8 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for role-editing-capable attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Source: Wordfence
The plugin does not escape a form action URL before outputting it back in an attribute, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Source: WPScan
The PublishPress Capabilities: Manage WordPress Permissions and Edit User Roles WordPress plugin was affected by an Authenticated SQLi security vulnerability.
Source: WPScan
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