Description
The Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder with Posts Blocks, Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6. 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 contributor-level access and above, to demote administrator-owned published builder templates (header, footer, front page, single, archive, 404, and search) to draft status and replace them with attacker-authored block content rendered site-wide, enabling defacement, phishing, and SEO spam. This is possible because the mzb-builder-template post type is registered with capability_type='post' and exposed via the REST API, and the _mzb_template meta key is accessible to any user with edit_posts capability, meaning Contributor-level users and above can trigger the vulnerable save_post() hook.
Published: 2026-09-18
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpblockart
Wpblockart magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder With Posts Blocks, Post Grid
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpblockart
Wpblockart magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder With Posts Blocks, Post Grid

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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Description The Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder with Posts Blocks, Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.6. 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 contributor-level access and above, to demote administrator-owned published builder templates (header, footer, front page, single, archive, 404, and search) to draft status and replace them with attacker-authored block content rendered site-wide, enabling defacement, phishing, and SEO spam. This is possible because the mzb-builder-template post type is registered with capability_type='post' and exposed via the REST API, and the _mzb_template meta key is accessible to any user with edit_posts capability, meaning Contributor-level users and above can trigger the vulnerable save_post() hook.
Title Magazine Blocks <= 1.8.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Modification / Site-Wide Template Takeover via Builder Templates REST Endpoint
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-18T14:31:44.242Z

Reserved: 2026-08-17T13:09:51.578Z

Link: CVE-2026-75017

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-18T14:29:57.975Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-18T07:16:50.113

Modified: 2026-09-18T15:17:11.677

Link: CVE-2026-75017

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-19T22:30:37Z

Weaknesses