CVE-2025-13149 Missing authorization in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
Authenticated authors can modify the status of arbitrary posts and pages due to missing authorization checks in the REST API.
- 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-2025-13149?
CVE-2025-13149 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories, published on 21 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing authorization check on the "saveFutureActionData" function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author level access and above, to change the status of arbitrary posts and pages via the REST API endpoint.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13149?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13149?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13149 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-2025-13149 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13149 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j4v2-25rp-cpm7.