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CVE-2026-74853: Pods < 3.3.9.2 - Author+ Arbitrary File Read via Shortcode Display Callback

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.39% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Unknown Pods 3.3.9.2.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Pods 3.3.9.2 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Pods WordPress plugin before 3.3.9.2 does not restrict which functions a display callback may resolve to, allowing users with the author role and above to read arbitrary files from the server, including files outside the web root. Only sites using the restricted display-callback mode are affected, which is the automatic default on installations whose first Pods version predates 3.1.

EUVD-2026-70903

Published: Sep 4, 2026
Updated: Sep 8, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 34th percentile
CWE: CWE-552

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Versions reported by the vendor

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Unknown Pods
- 3.1.0 and later · before 3.3.9.2affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-74851Pods < 3.3.9.1 - Author+ RCE via Shortcode Display Callback
28Monitor

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Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Unknown Pods	3.3.9.2	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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