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CVE-2025-5304 (GCVE-0-2025-5304)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-28 05:29 – Updated: 2025-06-30 18:32

Title

PT Project Notebooks 1.0.0 - 1.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via wpnb_pto_new_users_add Function

Summary

The PT Project Notebooks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing authorization in the wpnb_pto_new_users_add() function in versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-06-30 18:27 UTC

CWE

CWE-862 - Missing Authorization

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2379 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://wordpress.org/plugins/project-notebooks/#…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/projec…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/projec…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
blafoley	PT Project Notebooks – Take Meeting minutes, create budgets, track task management, and more	Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 1.1.3 (semver)	guessed

Credits

Kenneth Dunn

Show details on NVD website

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FKIE_CVE-2025-5304

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-06-28 06:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:47

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

URL	Tags
security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L233	Product
security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L36	Product
security@wordfence.com	https://wordpress.org/plugins/project-notebooks/#developers	Product
security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/552ec9fc-5bff-4bee-be04-39892c89cd59?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ptoffice	pt_project_notebooks	*

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GHSA-JJX8-42XR-XG34

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-28 06:31 – Updated: 2025-06-28 06:31

Details

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

Show details on source website

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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