CVE-2025-14736

Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.28.29 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator via Role Form Field

2026-01-08 17:45
andrea bocchetti

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.28.30
Affected Plugin
Frontend Admin by DynamiApps
Affected Version
<= 3.28.29
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2025-14736
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At a glance

CVE-2025-14736 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Frontend Admin by DynamiApps WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.28.29. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.28.30; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2026, reported by andrea bocchetti.

Vulnerability Overview

The Frontend Admin by DynamiApps plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.28.29. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied role values in the 'validate_value', 'pre_update_value', and 'get_fields_display' functions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as administrators and gain complete control of the site, granted they can access a user registration form containing a Role field.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Frontend Admin by DynamiApps <= 3.28.29 carries this weakness at validate_value, and reaching it takes no account at all. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Frontend Admin by DynamiApps the fix is 3.28.30: builds <= 3.28.29 are affected, anything from 3.28.30 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.28.30, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Frontend Admin by DynamiApps 3.28.30 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14736https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07eb71fc-6588-490d-8947-3077ec4a9045https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14736

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