CVE-2025-14043

Published: Dec 21, 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 Tainacan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized metadata section creation due to missing authorization checks in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to the `create_item_permissions_check()` function unconditionally returning true, which bypasses authentication and authorization validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary metadata sections for any collection via the public REST API granted they can access the WordPress site.

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 (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tainacan/tags/1.0.1/classes/api/endpoints/class-tainacan-rest-metadata-sections-controller.php#L363

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tainacan/trunk/classes/api/endpoints/class-tainacan-rest-metadata-sections-controller.php#L363

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5596a0f0-6bfe-4c6e-a0d6-117e13117098?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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