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CVE-2025-14123: Redux Framework <= 4.5.11 – Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Users Extension

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-09 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The Redux Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.11. This is due to the plugin saving arbitrary meta keys under a registered option name without sufficient capability checks or key allowlist / restrictions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to set an arbitrary role (e.g., Administrator) when performing a profile update if a plugin or theme using this framework has added at least one user profile field that leverages Redux_Users::set_profile/set_section/set_field.

Affected products

• davidanderson Redux Framework: through 4.5.11

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3582185/redux-framework
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bbe52266-9ee1-47a8-a6df-7057b29e8098?source=cve

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