# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-19598"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T17:25:26.723Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T15:49:27.097Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-19598"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-19598.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-19598"
title: "Pods \u003c= 3.3.9 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Authorization Bypass to Admin Methods via 'pods_admin' AJAX Router"
summary: "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."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.8.23.3"},{"version":"2.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"2.9.19.3"},{"version":"3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"3.0.10.3"},{"version":"3.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"3.1.4.1"},{"version":"3.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"3.2.8.2"},{"version":"3.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"3.3.9"}],"vendor":"sc0ttkclark","product":"Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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