Password Policy Manager <= 2.0.4 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
CVE-2025-31019Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.0.4Update to 2.0.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Password Policy Manager password-policy-manager
- Affected≤ 2.0.4
- Patched in2.0.5
Update to 2.0.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.4. Version 2.0.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Password Policy Manager.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.0.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Password Policy Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rafie Muhammad.
The Password Policy Manager | Password Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like password through the moppm_submit_new_pass() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Password Policy Manager
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Configuration Log Out ≤2.0.5Update to 2.0.6 | CVE-2025-11255 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Configuration Log Out
≤2.0.5Update to 2.0.6
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.