Is CVE-2025-5486 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-5486 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-5486?

CVE-2025-5486 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-5486?

CVE-2025-5486 has an EPSS score of 0.43% (35th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-5486

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

The WP Email Debug plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the WPMDBUG_handle_settings() function in versions 1.0 to 1.1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable debugging and send all emails to an attacker controlled address and then trigger a password reset for an administrator to gain access to an administrator account.

CWE-862Missing Authorization

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.43%probability of exploitation in 30 days

35thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 35% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-06-06.