CVE-2025-4474 Missing authorization in Frontend Dashboard
Authenticated subscribers can escalate privileges to administrator by exploiting a missing capability check in the Frontend Dashboard plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-4474?
CVE-2025-4474 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard, published on 13 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the fed_admin_setting_form_function() function in versions 1.0 to 2.2.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the plugin’s 'register' role setting to make new user registrations default to the administrator role, leading to an elevation of privileges to that of an administrator.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-4474?
How do I fix CVE-2025-4474?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-4474 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-4474 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-4474 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fvjp-r2gf-q2qc.