CVE-2025-13618 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2025-13618

Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration

9.8 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Ismail Syaleh

References

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Affected Vendor

dreamstechnologies

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Affected Software

Mentoring

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 5th, 2026

Last Modified: May 5th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1098 Account Manipulation

Privilege Escalation

T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Privilege Escalation

T1222 File and Directory Permissions Modification

Defense Evasion

T1134 Access Token Manipulation

Defense Evasion