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CVE-2025-2876: MelaPress Login Security and MelaPress Login Security Premium 2.1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Deletion

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• MelaPress Login Security: before 2.1.1 — fixed in 2.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: MelaPress Login Security 2.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://melapress.com/wordpress-login-security/releases/
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/melapress-login-security/trunk/app/modules/temporary-logins/class-temporary-logins.php#L71
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3267748/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/559cbc69-85b6-4bad-9bb2-26d64195ba7e?source=cve

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