CVE-2026-8422
Description
The Remove meta boxes per user role plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.01. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify or reset the plugin's per-role meta box visibility settings 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://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/tags/1.01/admin_pages/settings.php#L23
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/tags/1.01/admin_pages/settings.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/tags/1.01/remove-meta-boxes-per-role.php#L52
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/trunk/admin_pages/settings.php#L23
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/trunk/admin_pages/settings.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role/trunk/remove-meta-boxes-per-role.php#L52
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e456b08d-ccb9-40b8-9c36-d4b2f7f7fb91?source=cve
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.