CVE-2025-14540

medium

Description

The Userback plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the userback_get_json function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to extract plugin's configuration data including the Userback API access token and site's posts/pages contents, including those that have private and draft status.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1add8693-20df-431e-ad3b-b23322f1fa03?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userback/tags/1.0.15/index.php#L148

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-13

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003