---
id: "CVE-2026-119087"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-119087"]
title: "Content Egg WordPress plugin lets authors post as administrators"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 4.3
epss: 0.00222
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "other"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["content-egg", "other", "self-hosted", "wordpress"]
not_affected_if: ["no-author-accounts", "plugin-not-installed"]
published_at: "2026-10-30T06:16:48+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-30T06:28:39+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-30T18:23:37+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119087", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T06:28:39+00:00"}, {"source": "epss", "url": "https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-119087", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:23:37+00:00"}]
---

# Content Egg WordPress plugin lets authors post as administrators

The Content Egg WordPress plugin up to and including 12.0.0 lets an author-level user create posts attributed to another account, typically an administrator, by supplying an admin-owned preset_id. The attacker gets administrator-attributed published content, which can be used to make content look like it came from an admin.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## How to check

- Check the installed Content Egg plugin version in the WordPress admin plugin list or `wp plugin get content-egg --field=version`
- Review which accounts hold author-level or higher roles on the site

## Timeline

- 2026-10-30T06:28:39+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119087
- 2026-10-30T18:23:37+00:00 epss https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-119087

## From the sources

The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 12.0.0 This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to create posts attributed to another user's account — typically an administrator — by supplying an admin-owned preset_id, causing wp_insert_post to record the administrator as post_author. This includes the ability to create published posts when the attacker already holds publish_posts capability for the preset's post type, resulting in administrator-attributed published content created by a lower-privileged user.

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