CVE-2025-14866 PUBLISHED

Melapress Role Editor <= 1.1.1 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Secondary Role Assignment

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 18.12.2025 Published: 23.01.2026 Updated: 23.01.2026

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.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor melapress
Product Melapress Role Editor
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 1.1.1 (incl.)

Credits

  • Sarawut Poolkhet finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE