Frontend Dashboard 1.0 — 2.2.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via fed_admin_setting_form_function Function
CVE-2025-4474Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: 1.0 – 2.2.7Update to 2.2.8 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
- Weakness
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Frontend Dashboard frontend-dashboard
- Affected1.0 – 2.2.7
- Patched in2.2.8
Update to 2.2.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run 1.0 – 2.2.7. Version 2.2.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Frontend Dashboard.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.2.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Frontend Dashboard to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to kr0d.
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.
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 Frontend Dashboard
All 12| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.1 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection ≤6.0.0.4Update to 6.0.0.5 | CVE-2026-103693 | |
| Medium6.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation ≤3.0.7Update to 3.0.8 | CVE-2026-107424 | |
| High7.3 | 3.0.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation 3.0.0 – 3.0.4Update to 3.0.5 | CVE-2026-103692 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.0.0Update to 3.0.0 | CVE-2026-103681 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.2.8Update to 2.2.9 | CVE-2025-49310 |
- High8.1Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
≤6.0.0.4Update to 6.0.0.5
- Medium6.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
≤3.0.7Update to 3.0.8
- High7.33.0.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
3.0.0 – 3.0.4Update to 3.0.5
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤2.0.0Update to 3.0.0
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.2.8Update to 2.2.9
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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