CVE-2025-14043

Medium

Description

The Tainacan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized metadata section creation due to missing authorization checks in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the `create_item_permissions_check()` function unconditionally returning true, which bypasses authentication and authorization validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary metadata sections for any collection via the public REST API granted they can access the WordPress site.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductTainacan
PublishedDec 21, 2025
First seenDec 21, 2025

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
tainacan Tainacanv ≤ 1.0.1—

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