The Postem Ipsum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the postem_ipsum_generate_users() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary user accounts with the administrator role.
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Sat, 13 Dec 2025 04:45:00 +0000

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Description The Postem Ipsum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the postem_ipsum_generate_users() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary user accounts with the administrator role.
Title Postem Ipsum <= 3.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation in postem_ipsum_generate_users
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-12-13T04:31:22.541Z

Updated: 2025-12-13T04:31:22.541Z

Reserved: 2025-12-10T00:29:21.258Z

Link: CVE-2025-14397

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-13T16:16:49.413

Modified: 2025-12-13T16:16:49.413

Link: CVE-2025-14397

cve-icon Redhat

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