CVE-2025-5486

CRITICAL EPSS 34.8%
Published Jun 6, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
9.8 CVSS 3.1
Critical
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Published Jun 6, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
9.8
Exploitability
3.9
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
34.8% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-862 Missing Authorization Authorization

References 2

  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-email-debug/trunk/hooks.php#L71
  • wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3af64a2-3bd6-47af-919e-00c5249dcc74?source=cve

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.