{"id":81826,"date":"2026-07-11T05:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-13756-wp-grid-builder\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:16:17","slug":"cve-2026-13756-wp-grid-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-13756-wp-grid-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-13756 &#8211; WP Grid Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-13756<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 11, 2026, 2:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 7\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :The WP Grid Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This is due to missing authorization and meta key validation in the `update()` handler for the `\/wp-json\/wpgb\/v2\/metadata` REST endpoint. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator by updating their own `wp_capabilities` user meta with a crafted nested array payload.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-13756 Published : July 11, 2026, 2:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 7\u00a0minutes ago Description :The WP Grid Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This is due to missing authorization and meta key validation in the `update()` handler for the `\/wp-json\/wpgb\/v2\/metadata` REST endpoint. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}