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CVE-2025-12527: Page & Post Notes <= 1.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Note Update/Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-07 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Page & Post Notes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of notes due to a missing capability check on the 'yydev_notes_save_dashboard_data' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify notes.

Affected products

• yydevelopment Page & Post Notes: through 1.3.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-post-notes/trunk/include/insert-to-db.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-post-notes/trunk/index.php#L85
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3389236%40page-post-notes&new=3389236%40page-post-notes&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93dadc33-cabf-4701-97ca-861ad90597fb?source=cve

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