The Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Authorization Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.9. The vulnerability exists because the pods_admin AJAX router funnels every access check — including the method allowlist, nonce verification, login enforcement, and capability gate — through pods_error(), which under the JSON meta-box-loader compatibility path only writes failures to the PHP error log and returns false instead of terminating the request, rendering all guards ineffective. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to escalate their privileges to Administrator or overwrite the password of any user account, including the site owner's, enabling complete site takeover, or perform another administrator action.

The WordPress Pods Plugin installed on the remote host is affected by an unauthenticated privilege escalation via an authorization bypass to admin methods via 'pods_admin' AJAX Router

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
115451	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 2.8.23.4 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115450	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 2.9.19.4 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115449	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 3.0.10.4 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115448	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 3.1.4.2 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115447	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 3.2.8.3 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115446	Pods Plugin for WordPress < 3.3.9.1 Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2026-19598

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