Pre-Publish Checklist

Pre-Publish Checklist has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2023; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 5.3, and the most serious one scores 5.3 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Pre-Publish Checklist has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Rafie Muhammad. Pre-Publish Checklist is installed on roughly 1,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.6.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
5.3/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

1

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 5.3CVE-2023-44151

Pre-Publish Checklist <= 1.1.1 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Arbitrary Post '_ppc_meta_key' Update

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Vulnerability Records

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Latestv1.1.4

Pre-Publish Checklist

Pratik Chaskar

Author

Pratik Chaskar

5.0(11)
100/100
Last Updated
2026-01-19 (8mo ago)
Active Installs
1,000+
Downloads
31,543
Requires WP
4.7+
Requires PHP
5.6+
Tested up to
WP 6.6.7
Created
2019-09-25 (7y ago)

Easiest way to make sure your page or post is ready to go live Is the fear of publishing an incomplete post haunting you already? Do you get worried about tasks like adding a featured image, updating the permalink, etc. just when you are about to click the publish button? All of this is handled with an easy to use Pre-Publish Checklist plugin that lets you create a checklist you wish to maintain for every post type on your website. You can build a checklist with necessary tasks and prioritize them by placing them in the required order. This will make sure that you are reminded of the remaining tasks before the post goes live. Why worry about the things to do when the plugin will do that for you! Try it out on a free dummy site Key Features of Pre-Publish Checklist: The Pre-Publish Checklist is a useful plugin that lets you monitor whether the posts, pages and custom post types on your website are complete. With this plugin you can – Manage a checklist for your pages, posts, custom post types, etc. – The plugin fetches all of them in the settings and you can select where you wish to add the checklist. Create dedicated and personalized checklists for each of them – You can choose to create different checklists for pages, posts, etc. depending on the design and needs. Overview the progress of posts and pages – You no longer need to open the post or page editor to see whether a checklist is completed. We have added a column that can be seen alongside the list of posts and pages that will tell you whether a checklist is completed, how many items left or if a checklist isn’t added for a particular post type. How does it work? The Pre-Publish Checklist plugin lets you create a checklist and enable on the specific post types you wish to have it applied to. You can select the message that should be displayed to users when they click on the publish button without completing everything mentioned in the checklist. A pre-publish meta box gets added to the post types that you’ve selected and the plugin does its job every time you click the publish button without completing the checklist. Here are the points in brief – Under the General settings tab, select the action you wish to trigger when user clicks on the publish button. Select the post types you wish to get this applicable to. Create a checklist under the Checklist tab and save!

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