CVE-2025-13618

critical

Published 2026-05-05 · Modified 2026-05-05

CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.8

Description

The Mentoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with in the mentoring_process_registration() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

https://mentoring-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com/documentation/changelog.html
https://themeforest.net/item/mentoring-education-wordpress-theme/36457081
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7192fb4c-0434-4e11-a2a7-c205b8d6b68e?source=cve

CWEs

CWE-269

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.