CVE-2025-13741 Missing authorization in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
Authenticated contributors can retrieve emails of users with edit_posts capability due to missing authorization checks in the PublishPress Future 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-2025-13741?
CVE-2025-13741 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories, published on 16 Dec 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 access of data due to a missing capability check on the getAuthors function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve emails for all users with edit_posts capability.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-13741?
How do I fix CVE-2025-13741?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13741 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-2025-13741 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13741 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hvcw-x8r7-vqvw.