CVE-2025-14064 Missing authorization in BuddyTask
Authenticated subscribers can view, create, modify, and delete task boards in any BuddyPress group, including private ones, due to missing capability checks.
- 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-2025-14064?
CVE-2025-14064 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in cytechltd BuddyTask, published on 12 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The BuddyTask plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on multiple AJAX endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view, create, modify, and delete task boards belonging to any BuddyPress group, including private and hidden groups they are not members of.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14064?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14064?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14064 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-2025-14064 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14064 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hccr-jpf4-7r87.