# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 3 Jul 2026
- **Updated:** 6 Jul 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8rwq-pvxh-vj87

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2026-12729 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12729 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-12729 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12729 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wedevs weDocs: AI Powered Knowledge Base, Docs, Documentation, Wiki & AI Chatbot. 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-2026-12729/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-12729/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12729
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12729
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-12729

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-12729/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.