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Description

The WP Email Debug plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the WPMDBUG_handle_settings() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable debugging and send all emails to an attacker controlled address and then trigger a password reset for an administrator to gain access to an administrator account.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-02 | Published 2025-06-06 | Updated 2025-06-06 | Assigner Wordfence




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1.0 (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-06-05:Disclosed

Credits

Kenneth Dunn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-3bd6-47af-919e-00c5249dcc74?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...wp-email-debug/trunk/hooks.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-5486)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5486)

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