CVE-2025-14397 Missing authorization in Postem Ipsum
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by creating arbitrary admin accounts 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-2025-14397?
CVE-2025-14397 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in franciscopalacios Postem Ipsum, published on 13 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Postem Ipsum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the postem_ipsum_generate_users() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary user accounts with the administrator role.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14397?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14397?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14397 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-2025-14397 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14397 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rjgv-2m3v-c2v3.