Material Dashboard <= 1.4.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-32486
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 14, 2025
Last Updated April 22, 2025
Researcher astra.r3verii
Description

The Material Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.6. This is due to the plugin not utilizing sufficiently random values in the publicAjaxHandler() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug material-dashboard (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.6
Patched Version
  • 1.4.7
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