CVE-2025-5304PT Project Notebooks 1.0.0 - 1.1.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via wpnb_pto_new_users_add Function
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.71%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 46% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.71% · top 46% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
blafoley · PT Project Notebooks – Take Meeting minutes, create budgets, track task management, and more
- affected 1.0.0 – ≤ 1.1.3
References
References4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/552ec9fc-5bff-4bee-be04-39892c89cd59?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/project-notebooks/#developers (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L233 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/project-notebooks/tags/1.1.3/includes/structure/admin/pto_admin_settings.php#L36 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-19577 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-5304)Record last updated .