CVE-2026-12729 Missing authorization in weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot
Authenticated subscribers can trigger unauthorized data migration, modifying posts and deactivating plugins due to missing capability checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-12729?
CVE-2026-12729 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wedevs weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot, published on 3 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to and including 2.3.0. This is due to a missing capability check on the do_migration() function registered as the wedocs_migrate_betterdocs_to_wedocs AJAX action, which performs no nonce verification via check_ajax_referer() and no capability check via current_user_can() before executing sensitive operations. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger a full BetterDocs-to-weDocs data migration, creating and modifying 'docs' custom post type entries with attacker-controlled titles, updating site options, and deactivating the BetterDocs and BetterDocs Pro plugins via deactivate_plugins().
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-12729?
How do I fix CVE-2026-12729?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-12729 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-12729 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12729 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8rwq-pvxh-vj87.