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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-01-23T12:26:59.342Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T16:33:17.740Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-14866 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-14866.

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