The Post Duplicator WordPress plugin before 3.0.18 does not validate the capabilities assigned to roles through its permissions settings, allowing a site administrator on a multisite network who is not a Super Admin to grant any role arbitrary capabilities, including the network-management capabilities reserved to the Super Admin.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Unknown | Post Duplicator | unaffected |
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Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:30:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | The Post Duplicator WordPress plugin before 3.0.18 does not validate the capabilities assigned to roles through its permissions settings, allowing a site administrator on a multisite network who is not a Super Admin to grant any role arbitrary capabilities, including the network-management capabilities reserved to the Super Admin. | |
| Title | Post Duplicator < 3.0.18 - Admin+ Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Capability Assignment | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: WPScan
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-09T06:00:27.651Z
Reserved: 2026-11-04T10:24:24.618Z
Link: CVE-2026-121875
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