CVE-2024-12538

Summary

CVE-2024-12538 is a Sensitive Information Exposure vulnerability affecting the Duplicate Post, Page and Any Custom Post plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 3.5.3, enables authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to extract potentially sensitive data from draft, scheduled, private, and password-protected posts. The vulnerability is due to the 'dpp_duplicate_as_draft' function, which fails to adequately restrict access to the extracted information. This weakness potentially exposes private data, posing a significant risk to website security.

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