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High 8.8Published Jan 23, 2026

CVE-2025-14866Melapress Role Editor <= 1.1.1 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Secondary Role Assignment

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

CVSS
8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-863
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Wordfence
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Apr 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
melapress Melapress Role Editor
melapress:role_editor (from the name)
through 1.1.1
CNA record

References

References

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CVE-2025-14866: Melapress Role Editor <= 1.1.1 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalat | InfoSec Signals