CVE-2025-2876
The MelaPress Login Security and MelaPress Login Security Premium plugins for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'monitor_admin_actions' function in version 2.1.0.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The MelaPress Login Security and MelaPress Login Security Premium plugins for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the 'monitor_admin_actions' function in version 2.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete any user.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
- EPSS
- 0.37% probability · 30th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- melapress/melapress login security
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://melapress.com/wordpress-login-security/releases/Release Notes
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-login-security/trunk/app/modules/temporary-logins/class-temporary-logins.php#L71Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3267748/Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/559cbc69-85b6-4bad-9bb2-26d64195ba7e?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.