Incorrect authorization in Melapress Role Editor
Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-863Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-863.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00397 34th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-14866
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rg2h-cmxh-j3qw
References
Other 4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0509aaf1-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/additional-form-fields/class-user-profile.php#L103
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/
More Melapress vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-27808 WordPress WP Activity Log Plugin <= 4.6.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
- TI-2024-09166 Website File Changes < 2.1.1 - Authenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2024-09289 Website File Changes < 2.1.0 - Admin+ Authenticated SQL Injection CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.1
- TI-2026-39609 WordPress WP Activity Log plugin <= 5.6.3.1 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-06268 Authentication bypass in Melapress Login Security CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2025-02511 Missing authorization in MelaPress Login Security Premium CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
Sources
- CVE-2025-14866 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-14866 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-rg2h-cmxh-j3qw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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