Republish Old Posts
Republish Old Posts has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2023; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.3, and the most serious one scores 4.3 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for Republish Old Posts has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by Skalucy. Republish Old Posts is installed on roughly 2,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.
CVE-2023-52145Republish Old Posts <= 1.21 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via rop_options_page
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Republish Old Posts
Author
Marios Alexandrou
** WARNING: DON’T USE THIS PLUGIN IF YOUR PERMALINKS INCLUDE DATES ** The Republish Old Posts plugin helps revive old posts by resetting the publish date to the current date. This will push old posts to your front page, the top of archive pages, and back into RSS feeds. Ideal for sites with a large repository of evergreen content. Why would you want to do this? Here are a few reasons: New visitors to your site haven’t seen your old content. This will help them discover it. Old content won’t show up in date-based searches on search engines, but resetting the date can make them look fresh again. People like to share and link to new content and they determine that by looking at the publication date. A pro version (a lifetime license is less than $15) with many additional options (see screenshots) for controlling when and what posts are republished.
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