# CVE-2024-1850: AI Post Generator | AutoWriter <= 3.3 - Missing Authorization

> Authenticated subscribers can view, create, publish, or delete posts due to missing capability checks in the AI Post Generator plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jcrv-j83j-p76q

## What is CVE-2024-1850?

CVE-2024-1850 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in kekotron AI Post Generator | AutoWriter, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The AI Post Generator | AutoWriter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access, modification or deletion of posts due to a missing capability check on functions hooked by AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to view all posts generated with this plugin (even in non-published status), create new posts (and publish them), publish unpublished post or perform post deletions. CVE-2024-32713 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1850?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-1850?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1850 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1850 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1850 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1850 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1850 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in kekotron AI Post Generator | AutoWriter, published on 9 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1850 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: kekotron AI Post Generator | AutoWriter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1850/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1850/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1850
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1850
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1850

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1850/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.