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CVE-2025-14395: Popover Windows <= 1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Popover Configuration Update via AJAX Actions

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2025-12-13 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Popover Windows plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on multiple ajax actions (e.g., pop_submit, poptheme_submit) in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings and content.

Affected products

• melodicmedia Popover Windows: through 1.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/popover-windows/tags/1.2/popoveroptions.php#L98
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0cae43cb-a0b7-4067-95b3-26fec31ebf42?source=cve

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