CVE-2025-2933

HIGH

WordPress Email Notifications <1.1.6 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Email Notifications for Updates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the awun_import_settings() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site. CVE-2025-26741 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 25.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-862
Status published
Products (1)
aweos/Email Notifications for Updates < 1.1.6
Published Apr 05, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026