CVE-2024-12825: Brechtvds Custom Related Posts

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Custom Related Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access & modification of data due to a missing capability check on three AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to search posts and link/unlink relations.

Affected products

• Brechtvds Custom Related Posts: before 1.7.4 (fixed in 1.7.4)

Published 2025-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.