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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2025-5486 EUVD-2025-17069GHSA-c6rq-p3h5-mr8v

WP Email Debug 1.0 - 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Password Reset

Published Jun 6, 2025 · Updated Jun 6, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The WP Email Debug plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the WPMDBUG_handle_settings() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable debugging and send all emails to an attacker controlled address and then trigger a password reset for an administrator to gain access to an administrator account.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
dr_scythe WP Email Debug 1.0 – ≤ 1.1.0 —

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