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High · 8.8 CVE-2025-14866 EUVD-2026-4409GHSA-rg2h-cmxh-j3qw

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

Published Jan 23, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
melapress Melapress Role Editor ≤ 1.1.1 —

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