CVE-2025-14718 Missing authorization in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories
Authenticated contributors can manipulate scheduled workflows to delete or modify arbitrary posts, including those by administrators, due to missing authorization 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-2025-14718?
CVE-2025-14718 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories, published on 9 Jan 2026. 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 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.3. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to create, update, delete, and publish malicious workflows that may automatically delete any post upon publication or update, including posts created by administrators.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14718?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14718?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14718 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-2025-14718 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14718 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jxr7-8pxr-xxf7.