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

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-14397
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 12, 2025
Last Updated December 13, 2025
Researcher kr0d
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug postem-ipsum (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.1
Patched Version
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