# CVE-2025-13314: Missing authorization in Filter Plus – Product Filter & WordPress Filter

> Unauthenticated attackers can modify plugin settings and create arbitrary filter options due to missing capability checks in AJAX actions.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4hp4-g6xp-wxfw

## What is CVE-2025-13314?

CVE-2025-13314 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in markutos987 Filter Plus – Product Filter & WordPress Filter, published on 12 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Product Filtering by Categories, Tags, Price Range for WooCommerce – Filter Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6 due to a missing capability check on the 'filter_save_settings' and 'add_filter_options' AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings and create arbitrary filter options.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13314?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-13314?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13314 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-13314 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13314 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-13314 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-13314 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in markutos987 Filter Plus – Product Filter & WordPress Filter, published on 12 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13314 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: markutos987 Filter Plus – Product Filter & WordPress Filter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13314/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13314/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13314
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13314
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-13314

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13314/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.