CVE-2025-5304 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.3 of the PT Project Notebooks plugin for WordPress. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts due to missing authorization in the wpnb_pto_new_users_add() function. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating high awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.0.0, <= 1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ptoffice:pt_project_notebooks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.