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CVE-2025-14866

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2026-01-23 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-863

References