CVE-2026-4066

The Smart Custom Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the relational_posts_search() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read private and draft post content from other authors via the smart-cf-relational-posts-search AJAX action. The function queries posts with post_status=any and returns full WP_Post objects including post_content, but only checks the generic edit_posts capability instead of verifying whether the requesting user has permission to read each individual post.

• CWE-862

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-custom-fields/trunk/classes/fields/class.field-related-posts.php#L101
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-custom-fields/trunk/classes/fields/class.field-related-posts.php#L143
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-custom-fields/trunk/classes/fields/class.field-related-posts.php#L78
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3485210%40smart-custom-fields%2Ftrunk&old=3416964%40smart-custom-fields%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file2
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/87f52e3a-e414-4f47-b46c-e3811e76744b?source=cve

Published

Mar 23, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Deferred

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