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CVE-2025-14064: BuddyTask <= 1.3.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cross-Group Task Board Access and Manipulation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The BuddyTask plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on multiple AJAX endpoints in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to view, create, modify, and delete task boards belonging to any BuddyPress group, including private and hidden groups they are not members of.

Affected products

• cytechltd BuddyTask: through 1.3.0

References

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddytask/tags/1.3.0/buddytask.php#L458
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddytask/trunk/buddytask.php#L458
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddytask/trunk/buddytask.php#L666
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddytask/trunk/buddytask.php#L763
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddytask/trunk/buddytask.php#L840
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3416754/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0dfe0947-5790-49ba-aa3d-6bc61c12b355?source=cve

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