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CVE-2025-14397: Postem Ipsum <= 3.0.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation in postem_ipsum_generate_users

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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: 2025-12-13 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Postem Ipsum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the postem_ipsum_generate_users() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create arbitrary user accounts with the administrator role.

Affected products

• franciscopalacios Postem Ipsum: through 3.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postem-ipsum/trunk/admin/postem-ipsum-admin.php#L1150
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/229c146d-3f99-4f63-9a6f-997075846815?source=cve

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