# CVE-2025-14441: Popupkit <= 2.2.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Subscriber Data Deletion

> Authenticated subscribers can delete arbitrary subscriber records due to missing capability checks on the REST API endpoint.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j698-78g5-98mv

## What is CVE-2025-14441?

CVE-2025-14441 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in roxnor Popup builder with Gamification, Multi-Step Popups, Page-Level Targeting, and WooCommerce Triggers, published on 6 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Popupkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary subscriber data deletion due to missing authorization on the DELETE `/subscribers` REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This is due to the `permission_callback` only validating wp_rest nonce without checking user capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary subscriber records.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14441?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-14441?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14441 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-14441 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14441 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14441 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14441 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in roxnor Popup builder with Gamification, Multi-Step Popups, Page-Level Targeting, and WooCommerce Triggers, published on 6 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14441 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: roxnor Popup builder with Gamification, Multi-Step Popups, Page-Level Targeting, and WooCommerce Triggers. 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-2025-14441/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14441/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14441
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14441
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14441

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14441/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.