Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-06-06T06:42:54.315Z

Last Modified :

2025-06-06T16:08:27.212Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-5486 vulnerability.

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REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-5486.

URL Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-email-debug/trunk/hooks.php#L71 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3af64a2-3bd6-47af-919e-00c5249dcc74?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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