Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain contributor-level account on target site
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ExploitInvoke Royal MCP page-duplication on target page ID
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ExecutionBypass missing object-level permission check
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ImpactRead full private/draft page content and publish duplicate
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated account with at least contributor-level privileges on a WordPress site running Royal MCP before 1.5.10, and the attacker must use the plugin's page-duplication feature against a target page by its identifier. Exploitation is limited to reading private/draft page content and publishing those pages - there is no availability impact and no code execution. Key limiting factors: a valid low-privilege authenticated session is mandatory (not anonymous), the vulnerable plugin must be installed and below 1.5.10, and impact is confined to page objects exposed through the duplication function. |
| Impact | This is a broken object-level authorization flaw (CWE-639) in the Royal MCP WordPress plugin that, by every real-world signal, is a low-to-moderate priority rather than an urgent threat. The supplied CVSS 3.1 vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 3.8) is internally inconsistent with the description: it specifies PR:H (high privileges), yet the description explicitly states the attacker only needs 'contributor-level access,' which is a low-privilege authenticated WordPress role - this points to PR:L, not PR:H, which would raise the base score to roughly 5.4. Verify the privilege metric with the vendor/WPScan advisory. EPSS is very low (0.15%, 4th percentile) and the vuln.today decision label is 'monitor,' both consistent with a low-urgency, low-automatability access-control bug that requires a pre-existing authenticated foothold. There is no CISA KEV listing and no SSVC exploitation data supplied, so there is no evidence of active exploitation; no public exploit identified at time of analysis (the references are advisories, not PoC/exploit code). Net: a legitimately-scoped authorization weakness with limited confidentiality and integrity impact, gated behind an authenticated contributor account - patch in normal cycles, not an emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds a contributor account (self-registered or compromised) on a site running Royal MCP before 1.5.10 invokes the plugin's page-duplication function against a private or draft page they should not be able to see. Because no object-level permission check is performed, they receive the full content of that private/draft page and can publish the duplicate without holding the publish capability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Authenticated users with only contributor-level access on WordPress sites running the Royal MCP plugin before 1.5.10 can duplicate arbitrary pages by identifier, reading the full content of private and draft pages and republishing them without holding the publish capability. The flaw is a broken object-level authorization issue (CWE-639): the duplication routine relies on a generic capability instead of verifying the caller's rights on the specific page object, so a low-privilege session is enough to cross a trust boundary. Real-world signals are subdued - EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis - and impact is confined to disclosure and unauthorized publication of page content, with no availability or code-execution effect.
RemediationAI
Update the Royal MCP plugin to version 1.5.10 or later; the vendor has released a patch, and the fix should be applied through the normal WordPress plugin update path (or by deploying the 1.5.10 package directly) and the installed version verified afterwards using the plugin list or WP-CLI. The available sources document no alternative workaround, so updating is the only stated remedy; there is no vendor guidance on disabling or restricting the duplication feature as a stopgap. Because exploitation requires an authenticated contributor-level account, sites that cannot patch immediately should review who holds contributor and higher roles, but this is an operational exposure reduction rather than a documented fix. After upgrading, audit pages created through the duplication feature for unexpected publication of private or draft content as an indicator of prior abuse. Advisory reference: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ffdf84e4-dce3-4768-91c9-138256c3064c/.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WordPress enforces authorization through its capabilities API, where coarse capabilities such as edit_posts are granted by role and per-object capabilities such as edit_post are evaluated against a specific post or page ID. CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) applies here because the plugin's page-duplication feature accepts a target page identifier from the request and acts on it after only a generic capability check, never confirming that the requesting user may read or publish that particular object. Contributors normally can draft their own content but cannot publish it; this gap lets them pull the body of private or draft pages they do not own and then push a copy live through the duplication path, effectively manufacturing publish rights they were never granted. The supplied evidence does not describe the exact request format or code path used to reach the duplication handler; only that the vulnerable plugin must be installed at a version below 1.5.10 and that the attacker must be an authenticated user with at least contributor privileges.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description specifies contributor-level access so PR:L (not PR:H); network-facing with no user interaction; limited confidentiality (reading private/draft pages) and integrity (unauthorized publish), no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Royal MCP WordPress plugin before 1.5.10 does not perform an object-level permission check before duplicating a requested page, relying on a generic capability, which allows users with contributor-level access to read the full content of any private or draft page and to publish it without holding the publish capability.
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