CVE-2025-5486

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical

Status

Deferred - security@wordfence.com

Published

2025-06-06

Last modified

2025-06-06

Weaknesses

CWE-862

Affected products

• Wp Email Debug (Dr Scythe)

References

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