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CVE-2025-5486

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

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
dr_scythe / WP Email Debugaffected 1.0 through 1.1.0

CWE

CWE-862

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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