CVE-2025-13405

Published: Nov 25, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

5.3

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The Ace Post Type Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized custom taxonomy deletion due to missing authorization validation on the cptb_delete_custom_taxonomy() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary custom taxonomies.

Related CWEs

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (4)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ace-post-type-builder/tags/1.9/includes/class-cptb-core.php#L400

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ace-post-type-builder/trunk/includes/class-cptb-core.php#L400

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3412781/

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b56cef33-057b-4c40-945f-68306597b00b?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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