Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-14397

franciscopalacios Postem Ipsum

Postem Ipsum <= 3.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation in postem_ipsum_generate_users

CVSS 3.1

8.8High

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.

CVSS scores

Score	Version	Source	Vector
8.8High	3.1	CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Wordfence)	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Source
franciscopalacios	Postem Ipsum	v ≤ 3.0.1	CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published: 2025-12-13
Last updated: 2026-04-08
State: Published
Assigner (CNA): Wordfence

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.28%

Probability of exploitation in 30 days

20.9%

Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable: No
Exploitation: None
Technical impact: Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-862
Missing Authorization