CVE-2025-14397

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductPostem Ipsum
PublishedDec 13, 2025
First seenDec 13, 2025

How to fix

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

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
franciscopalacios Postem Ipsumv ≤ 3.0.1—

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