Vulnerability · Published Dec 16, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-13741Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories <= 4.9.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Authors' Emails Exposure
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity missing authorization in Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories from publishpress. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the getAuthors function in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to retrieve emails for all users with edit_posts capability.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| publishpress | Schedule Post Changes With PublishPress Future: Unpublish, Delete, Change Status, Trash, Change Categories | 0 – through 4.9.2 |
Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N