CVE-2025-5486 PUBLISHED

WP Email Debug 1.0 - 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Password Reset

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 02.06.2025 Published: 06.06.2025 Updated: 06.06.2025

The WP Email Debug plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the WPMDBUG_handle_settings() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable debugging and send all emails to an attacker controlled address and then trigger a password reset for an administrator to gain access to an administrator account.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor dr_scythe
Product WP Email Debug
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.0 to 1.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Kenneth Dunn finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE