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CVE-2025-13741: Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories <= 4.9.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Authors' Emails Exposure

• 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: 2025-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getAuthors function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve emails for all users with edit_posts capability.

Affected products

• publishpress Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories: through 4.9.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-expirator/tags/4.9.1/src/Modules/Workflows/Rest/RestApiV1.php#L376
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f67da8c-da60-4c77-a8b8-7dfc027662e9?source=cve

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