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

Incorrect Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-14866
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 22, 2026
Last Updated January 23, 2026
Researcher Sarawut Poolkhet (MisterHelloz)
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug melapress-role-editor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.1
Patched Version
  • 1.2.0
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