High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 23, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-14866
CVE-2025-14866
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 products
1- Range: <=1.1.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/additional-form-fields/class-user-profile.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-role-editor/tags/1.1.0/classes/admin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0509aaf1-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3nvd
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