CVE-2025-14866 (GCVE-0-2025-14866)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-23 12:26 – Updated: 2026-01-23 14:13
VLAI?
Title
Melapress Role Editor <= 1.1.1 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Secondary Role Assignment
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.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
melapress Melapress Role Editor Affected: * , ≤ 1.1.1 (semver)
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Credits
Sarawut Poolkhet
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