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1 vulnerability found for Melapress Role Editor by melapress
CVE-2025-14866 (GCVE-0-2025-14866)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-01-23 12:26
Modified
2026-04-08 16:33
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| melapress | Melapress Role Editor |
Version: 0 ≤ 1.1.1 |
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