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CVE-2025-12126: The Total Book Project <= 1.0 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Contributor+) Book Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The The Total Book Project plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 via several functions due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to perform several actions like moving/deleting/creating chapters in books that do not belong to them.

Affected products

• ryanmoyer The Total Book Project: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3392629%40the-total-book-project&new=3392629%40the-total-book-project
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-total-book-project/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1b473fd-2444-4a54-b558-4656634a6903?source=cve

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