CVE-2025-13618 | The Mentoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privileg… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-13618
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 2025-11-24 19:59 UTC
Published: 2026-05-05 02:26 UTC
Last updated: 2026-05-05 12:38 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-269
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Vendor / Product: dreamstechnologies / Mentoring
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
dreamstechnologies	Mentoring	—	0 ≤ 1.2.8

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-269	cna	CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (3)