Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.28.25 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator via Role Form Field

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-14736
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 8, 2026
Last Updated January 9, 2026
Researcher andrea bocchetti
Description

The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.28.25. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied role values in the 'validate_value', 'pre_update_value', and 'get_fields_display' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as administrators and gain complete control of the site, granted they can access a user registration form containing a Role field.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug acf-frontend-form-element (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.28.25
Patched Version
  • 3.28.26
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