CVE-2025-14866HIGH 8.8EPSS p28.2%
CVE-2025-14866CVE-2025-14866
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.8 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.36% probability of exploitation · percentile 28.2% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-01-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-15 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
- 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/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0509aaf1-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3?source=cve
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Incorrect Authorizationcwe-863 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
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