Medium severity · published Sep 18, 2026
CVE-2026-75017
Magazine Blocks <= 1.8.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary Post Modification / Site-Wide Template Takeover via Builder Templates REST Endpoint
4.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MB
Affected product
MB
Magazine Blocks – Blog Designer, Magazine & Newspaper Website Builder, Page Builder with Posts Blocks, Post Grid
wpblockart
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75017
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75017
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magazine-blocks/tags/1.8.6/includes/MagazineBlocks.php#L98
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magazine-blocks/tags/1.8.6/includes/PostTypes/SiteBuilder.php#L116
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magazine-blocks/tags/1.8.6/includes/PostTypes/SiteBuilder.php#L138
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magazine-blocks/tags/1.8.6/includes/PostTypes/SiteBuilder.php#L56
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3656574%40magazine-blocks&new=3656574%40magazine-blocks
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f66d26a-8eb7-4b29-bb7f-afdd762be4b2?source=cve
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