Frontend Dashboard 1.0 - 2.2.6 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via fed_wp_ajax_fed_login_form_post Function

Improper Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-4104
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 6, 2025
Last Updated May 7, 2025
Researcher kr0d
Description

The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the fed_wp_ajax_fed_login_form_post() function in versions 1.0 to 2.2.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the administrator’s email and password, and elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug frontend-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.0 - 2.2.6
Patched Version
  • 2.2.7
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