dreamstechnologies Mentoring Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress mentoring_process_registration privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in dreamstechnologies Mentoring Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. This affects the function mentoring_process_registration. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-13618. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in dreamstechnologies Mentoring Plugin up to 1.2.8 on WordPress. This affects the function mentoring_process_registration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was presented by Ismail Syaleh. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-13618 since 11/24/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at mentoring-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• dreamstechnologies

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• Mentoring Plugin

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• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8

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