WordLift <= 3.54.10 - Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in JSON-LD REST API Endpoints
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.54.14
- Affected Plugin
- WordLift – AI powered SEO – Schema
- Affected Version
<= 3.54.10- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2026-9289
At a glance
CVE-2026-9289 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the WordLift WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.54.10. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.54.14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2026, reported by Benedictus Jovan (aillesiM).
Vulnerability Overview
The WordLift – AI powered SEO – Schema plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.54.10 via the JSON-LD REST API endpoints. This is due to the plugin registering the /wordlift/v1/jsonld/ routes (jsonld/{id}, jsonld/http/{item_id}, jsonld/post-meta/{meta_key}, jsonld/meta/{meta_key}, and jsonld/{post_type}/{post_name}) with a permission_callback of '__return_true' and the downstream converter retrieving the post via get_post() without verifying the post status or the requesting user's capabilities. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the title, content/description, author, publication and modification dates, word count, comment count, and other metadata of private, draft, and pending posts by enumerating post IDs, bypassing WordPress core access controls.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
WordLift <= 3.54.10 carries this weakness at __return_true, and reaching it takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.
The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For WordLift the fix is 3.54.14: builds <= 3.54.10 are affected, anything from 3.54.14 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.54.14, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: WordLift 3.54.14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
Related records
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CVE-2022-3069 - 5.3CVE-2024-12176: WordLift Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update
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