---
id: CVE-2025-13618
title: >-
  The Mentoring plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in
  all versions up to, and including, 1.2.8
summary: >-
  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_regi…
severity: critical
cvss: 9.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-269
published: '2026-05-05'
updated: '2026-09-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-30T22:10:00.273'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13618'
references:
  - url: 'https://mentoring-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com/documentation/changelog.html'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: 'https://themeforest.net/item/mentoring-education-wordpress-theme/36457081'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7192fb4c-0434-4e11-a2a7-c205b8d6b68e?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00336
epssPercentile: 0.24547
ingestedAt: '2026-09-30T22:27:27.778Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.