CVE-2025-13618 (GCVE-0-2025-13618)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-05 02:26 – Updated: 2026-05-05 02:26
VLAI?
Title
Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration
Summary
The Mentoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with in the mentoring_process_registration() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
dreamstechnologies Mentoring Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.8 (semver)
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Credits
Ismail Syaleh
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