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CVE-2025-14866
HIGH8.8
Description
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score8.8
SeverityHIGH
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack VectorNETWORK
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published1/23/2026
Last Modified1/26/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-863
References
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/additional-form-fields/class-user-profile.php#L103(security@wordfence.com)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php(security@wordfence.com)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/(security@wordfence.com)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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