CVE-2026-7614
Description
The Old Posts Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the OPH_options function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's configuration settings without authorization via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c186d5eb-abc2-47bd-9d3c-2b2f24d2f87e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/old-posts-highlighter/trunk/OPH_admin.php#L37
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/old-posts-highlighter/tags/1.0.3/OPH_admin.php#L37
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/old-posts-highlighter/trunk/OPH_admin.php#L163
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/old-posts-highlighter/tags/1.0.3/OPH_admin.php#L163
CWEs
CWE-352
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.