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1 vulnerability by franciscopalacios
CVE-2025-14397 (GCVE-0-2025-14397)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-13 04:31 – Updated: 2025-12-15 15:34
VLAI?
Title
Postem Ipsum <= 3.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation in postem_ipsum_generate_users
Summary
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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| franciscopalacios | Postem Ipsum |
Affected:
* , ≤ 3.0.1
(semver)
|
Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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