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CVE-2025-13405

Published: Nov 25, 2025

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

The Ace Post Type Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized custom taxonomy deletion due to missing authorization validation on the cptb_delete_custom_taxonomy() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary custom taxonomies.

Vendor	Product	Versions
buywptemplates	Ace Post Type Builder	affected `0 - <= 1.9`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b56cef33-057b-4c40-945f-68306597b00b?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ace-post-type-builder/trunk/includes/class-cptb-core.php#L400

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ace-post-type-builder/tags/1.9/includes/class-cptb-core.php#L400

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3412781/

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