Critical severity · published May 5, 2026
CVE-2025-13618
Mentoring <= 1.2.8 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation in mentoring_process_registration
9.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 27% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ME
Mentoring · dreamstechnologies
through 1.2.8 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13618
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-13618
mentoring-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com
https://mentoring-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com/documentation/changelog.html
themeforest.net
https://themeforest.net/item/mentoring-education-wordpress-theme/36457081
www.wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7192fb4c-0434-4e11-a2a7-c205b8d6b68e?source=cve