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High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-38312

CVE-2021-38312

Description

The Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin <= 4.2.11 for WordPress used an incorrect authorization check in the REST API endpoints registered under the “redux/v1/templates/” REST Route in “redux-templates/classes/class-api.php”. The permissions_callback used in this file only checked for the edit_posts capability which is granted to lower-privileged users such as contributors, allowing such users to install arbitrary plugins from the WordPress repository and edit arbitrary posts.

Affected products

2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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