CVE-2025-12071 Missing authorization in Frontend User Notes
Authenticated subscribers can modify arbitrary notes belonging to other users due to missing authorization checks in the Frontend User Notes plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12071?
CVE-2025-12071 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in absikandar Frontend User Notes, published on 18 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Frontend User Notes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 via the 'funp_ajax_modify_notes' AJAX endpoint due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify arbitrary notes that do not belong to them.
Weakness: CWE-639
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12071?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12071?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12071 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-12071 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12071 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wpf3-wv8v-2wxj.