Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Dec 21, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-14043
CVE-2025-14043
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.
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References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tainacan/tags/1.0.1/classes/api/endpoints/class-tainacan-rest-metadata-sections-controller.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tainacan/trunk/classes/api/endpoints/class-tainacan-rest-metadata-sections-controller.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5596a0f0-6bfe-4c6e-a0d6-117e13117098nvd
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