PT-2025-51071 · WordPress · Postem Ipsum

Kenneth Dunn · Published 2025-12-13 · Updated 2025-12-18 · CVE-2025-14397

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Postem Ipsum versions up to and including 3.0.1

Description The Postem Ipsum plugin for WordPress has a flaw that allows unauthorized modification of data, leading to privilege escalation. Attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher can create arbitrary user accounts with administrator privileges due to a missing capability check on the postem ipsum generate users() function.

Recommendations Update Postem Ipsum to a version later than 3.0.1.

Fix

LPE

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-14397

Affected Products

Postem Ipsum

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14397 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1999865371688677748 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/229c146d-3f99-4f63-9a6f-997075846815?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CveFindCom/status/1999882057510437374 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/postem-ipsum/trunk/admin/postem-ipsum-admin.php#L1150 · Note
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/2001608430243688950 · Twitter Post