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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-18 | Published 2026-01-23 | Updated 2026-01-23 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-12-18:Vendor Notified
2026-01-22:Disclosed

Credits

Sarawut Poolkhet finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8aae-42e5-84d3-ea9b431703f3?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...dmin/ajax/class-admin-ajax.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...-fields/class-user-profile.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3439348/

cve.org (CVE-2025-14866)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14866)

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