{"id":66376,"date":"2025-07-16T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6993-wordpress-wp-mail-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:01:39","slug":"cve-2025-6993-wordpress-wp-mail-privilege-escalation-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-6993-wordpress-wp-mail-privilege-escalation-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-6993 &#8211; WordPress WP Mail Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-6993<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> July 16, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 20\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Ultimate WP Mail plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to improper authorization within the get_email_log_details() AJAX handler in versions 1.0.17 to 1.3.6. The handler reads the client-supplied post_id and retrieves the corresponding email log post content (including the password-reset link), relying only on the \u2018edit_posts\u2019 capability without restricting to administrators or validating ownership. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to harvest an admin\u2019s reset link and elevate their privileges to administrator.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.5 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-6993 Published : July 16, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 20\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Ultimate WP Mail plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to improper authorization within the get_email_log_details() AJAX handler in versions 1.0.17 to 1.3.6. The handler reads the client-supplied post_id and retrieves the corresponding email log post &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}