vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: frontend-dashboard: CVE-2025-4474: Improper Authorization
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 12, 2025 | May 15, 2025 | May 4, 2026 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 12, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026
Description
The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the fed_admin_setting_form_function() function in versions 1.0 to 2.2.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the plugin’s 'register' role setting to make new user registrations default to the administrator role, leading to an elevation of privileges to that of an administrator.
Solution
frontend-dashboard-plugin-cve-2025-4474
References
Rapid7 Labs
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