CVE-2025-14866: Melapress Role Editor

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Melapress Melapress Role Editor: up to and including 1.1.1

Published 2026-01-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.