CVE-2025-5486 - WP Email Debug 1.0 - 1.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Password Reset

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CRITICAL

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

Published Jun 6, 2025

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.50%

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.

Affected products

Vendor DR Scythe Product WP Email Debug Default
unaffected
- Version
  1.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <=1.1.0

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

DR Scythe

WP Email Debug

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
1.0	affected	<=1.1.0

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

References (3)

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-17069		Advisory
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