CVE-2025-14866
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
The Melapress Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.1. This is due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'save_secondary_roles_field' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to assign themselves additional roles including Administrator.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| melapress | Melapress Role Editor | 0 <= 1.1.1 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-863: CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical Impact: total
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0509aaf1-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/additional-form-fields/class-user-profile.php#L103
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/
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