The AI Alt Text Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0.
CVE-2026-120578
The AI Alt Text Generator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the alt text, and optionally the title, caption, and description of arbitrary attachments owned by other users. Exploiting this vulnerability requires a Contributor-level account to retrieve the nonce from the page source of post.php, post-new.php, or upload.php; additionally, overwriting posttitle, postexcerpt, and postcontent requires the plugin's settitle, setcaption, or setdescription options to be enabled.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 5.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 3 November 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Affected
- migkapa · AI Alt Text Generator
- Assigner
- Wordfence
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
At the source
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa4741fa-0871-4f23-b164-94f5e94f5712?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/admin/class-ai-alt-text-generator-admin.php#L585
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-ai-alt-text-generator.php#L175
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-alt-text-generator/tags/2.7.0/includes/functions.php#L249
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3767321%40ai-alt-text-generator&new=3767321%40ai-alt-text-generator
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