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Vulnerability advisory

CVE-2025-14080

Research by Md. Moniruzzaman Prodhan December 21, 2025
Overview

Summary

The Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This is due to missing authorization checks on the post update functionality in the fpsml_form_process AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary posts by providing a post_id parameter via the guest posting form, allowing them to change post titles, content, excerpts, and remove post authors.

Risk profile

CVSS assessment

5.3 · M E D I U M
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
N E T W O R K
Complexity
L O W
Privileges
N O N E
User interaction
N O N E
Scope
U N C H A N G E D
Confidentiality
N O N E
Integrity
L O W
Availability
N O N E
Classification

Weaknesses

  • Missing Authorization CWE-862
Further reading

References

4 sources
  1. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/tags/1.2.5/includes/cores/ajax-process-form.php#L104
  2. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-post-submission-manager-lite/trunk/includes/cores/ajax-process-form.php#L104
  3. plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3419835%40frontend-post-submission-manager-lite&new=3419835%40frontend-post-submission-manager-lite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
  4. www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e9b6514-e727-42fe-8893-a317b71b2760?source=cve