CVE-2025-13618

Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration

Published May 5, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Dreamstechnologies
Dreamstechnologies mentoring
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Dreamstechnologies
Dreamstechnologies mentoring
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Published
Updated
May 5, 2026, 12:38 PM
Reserved
Nov 24, 2025, 7:59 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 5, 2026, 3:15 AM
Modified
Oct 7, 2026, 9:10 AM