CVE-2025-11168 (GCVE-0-2025-11168)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-11 03:30
Modified
2026-04-08 16:42
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
The Mementor Core plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.5. This is due to plugin not properly handling the user switch back function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges by accessing an administrator account through the switch back functionality.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mvirik Mementor Core Version: 0    2.2.5
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