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CVE-2025-13618: Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-05 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• dreamstechnologies Mentoring: through 1.2.8

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

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