Custom Posts Order
Custom Posts Order has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Custom Posts Order has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by 0xd4rk5id3. Custom Posts Order is installed on roughly 200 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
CVE-2025-32645Custom Posts Order <= 4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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Custom Posts Order
Author
Hiren Patel
Custom Posts Order plugin will order posts with simple Drag and Drop Sortable capability. Place a shortcode in page, post, text widget or template files to display in front-end. It’s that simple. Quick and easy drag and drop for rearranging of posts. Set the number of posts to display in front-end. User can add different list of sections of particular posts. Usage Place this shortcode in page, post or text widget where you’d like to display posts. [posts_order posts=2 section=porder_name] Parameters Custom Posts Order plugin supports the “posts” parameter where you can pass the number of posts you want to display in frontend and “section” parameter where you can pass the name of the section to be displayed in frontend. For example if you want to display 3 posts from Section1 at a time then place the following code: [posts_order posts=3 section=Section1] By default it displays 5 posts. Templates Place this shortcode in any template parts of your theme. <?php echo do_shortcode('[posts_order posts=3 section="Section1"]'); ?>
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