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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to effectively that of an Administrator with respect to site-wide redirect management — creating, updating, or deleting 301/302 redirects that RedirectManagerHooks::handleRedirects() executes for every frontend visitor on template_redirect, allowing hijacking of arbitrary paths (including /checkout, /wp-login.","publishedAt":"2026-10-28T06:45:20.777Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:41:50.965Z","severity":{"score":6.3,"label":"Medium","version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L","source":"Wordfence"},"assigner":"Wordfence","products":["rankingcoach BeyondSEO – AI SEO to Improve Rankings, Listings & Online Visibility"],"affected":[{"vendor":"rankingcoach","product":"BeyondSEO – AI SEO to Improve Rankings, Listings & Online Visibility","defaultStatus":"unaffected","versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","lessThanOrEqual":"1.3.6","versionType":"semver"}]}],"references":["https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd4b2396-288f-45e6-b911-b017dc8d0526?source=cve","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleBase/BaseModule.php#L249","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManager.php#L67","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleBase/BaseSubmoduleApi.php#L289","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManagerApi.php#L266","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beyondseo/tags/1.3.1/inc/Modules/ModuleLibrary/Links/RedirectManager/RedirectManagerHooks.php#L51","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3722492%40beyondseo&new=3722492%40beyondseo"],"weaknesses":["CWE-269"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-29T20:12:58.252Z","source":{"repository":"CVEProject/cvelistV5","path":"cves/2026/76xxx/CVE-2026-76780.json","commit":"556c9d3a8cd17e218bb8e452ba7cd619a384ff47"},"raw":{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-76780","state":"PUBLISHED","datePublished":"2026-10-28T06:45:20.777Z","dateUpdated":"2026-10-29T01:41:50.965Z","assignerShortName":"Wordfence","assignerOrgId":"b15e7b5b-3da4-40ae-a43c-f7aa60e62599","dateReserved":"2026-08-19T17:12:59.574Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"title":"BeyondSEO <= 1.3.6 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Limited Privilege Escalation","descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"The Beyondseo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in versions up to, and including, 1.3.6. 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