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CVE-2025-14866

HIGH 8.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
January 23, 2026
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Deferred
Reported by
security@wordfence.com
Weakness
CWE-863
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Affected WordPress components

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • melapress Melapress Role Editor — Up to and including 1.1.1

References

  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/additional-form-fields/class-user-profile.php#L103
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/
  • www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0509aaf1-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3?source=cve
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record