{"id":"CVE-2025-5304","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-5304","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:19:16.914Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2025-06-28T06:15:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:47:39.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["ptoffice/pt project notebooks"],"epss":{"score":0.00686,"percentile":0.52358,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L233","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L36","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/project-notebooks/#developers","tags":["Product"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/552ec9fc-5bff-4bee-be04-39892c89cd59?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5304","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}