CVE-2025-5486

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

0.5%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

42nd

EPSS percentile

2025-06-06

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-862

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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-5486