CVE-2026-8940: Jasonpitts Wp Meta Sort Posts

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Meta Sort Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.9. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the top-level included script in msp-options.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the plugin's msp_loop_file and msp_nav_location settings via a forged request via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Jasonpitts Wp Meta Sort Posts: up to and including 0.9

Published 2026-06-09. Last modified 2026-07-23.