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WP Email Debug, CVE-2025-5486

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-5486

Application

WP Email Debug

Published on
Jun 06, 2025
Research 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 versions
Min -, max 1.0-1.1.
Status
vulnerable