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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Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Melapress Role Editor <= 1.1.1 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Secondary Role Assignment
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-01-23T12:26:59.342Z

Updated: 2026-01-23T14:13:51.954Z

Reserved: 2025-12-18T01:55:21.873Z

Link: CVE-2025-14866

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-23T13:15:47.983

Modified: 2026-01-23T13:15:47.983

Link: CVE-2025-14866

cve-icon Redhat

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