CVE-2025-4104
📋 TL;DR
The Frontend Dashboard WordPress plugin versions 1.0 to 2.2.6 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to reset administrator credentials and gain full administrative access. This affects any WordPress site using the vulnerable plugin versions. Attackers can completely compromise affected WordPress installations.
💻 Affected Systems
- Frontend Dashboard WordPress Plugin
⚠️ Manual Verification Required
This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.
Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).
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- Review the CVE details at NVD
- Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
- Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
- Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Complete site takeover with administrative access, allowing data theft, defacement, malware injection, and further network compromise.
Likely Case
Administrative account takeover leading to site defacement, data exfiltration, or installation of backdoors.
If Mitigated
Limited impact if detected early, but still requires full incident response and cleanup.
🎯 Exploit Status
The vulnerability is simple to exploit with basic HTTP requests targeting the vulnerable function.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 2.2.7
Vendor Advisory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-dashboard/#developers
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Log into WordPress admin panel
2. Navigate to Plugins → Installed Plugins
3. Find Frontend Dashboard plugin
4. Click 'Update Now' if available
5. If not, download version 2.2.7 from WordPress.org and manually update
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable Frontend Dashboard Plugin
allTemporarily disable the vulnerable plugin until patching is possible
wp plugin deactivate frontend-dashboard
Restrict Access to wp-admin
allLimit access to WordPress admin area to trusted IP addresses only
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Immediately disable the Frontend Dashboard plugin
- Implement web application firewall rules to block requests to the vulnerable endpoint
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check WordPress admin → Plugins → Frontend Dashboard version numberCheck Version:
wp plugin list --name=frontend-dashboard --field=versionVerify Fix Applied:
Confirm plugin version is 2.2.7 or higher in WordPress admin📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual POST requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with action=fed_wp_ajax_fed_login_form_post
- Multiple failed login attempts followed by successful admin login from new IP
- User role changes from subscriber/contributor to administrator
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to admin-ajax.php with privilege escalation parameters
- Unusual traffic patterns to WordPress admin endpoints
SIEM Query:
source="wordpress.log" AND ("admin-ajax.php" AND "fed_wp_ajax_fed_login_form_post") OR ("user_role_changed" AND "administrator")🔗 References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.6/includes/frontend/request/login/index.php#L21
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.6/includes/frontend/request/login/register.php#L16
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/frontend-dashboard/tags/2.2.7/includes/frontend/request/login/validation.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3288562/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-dashboard/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/31e518a9-316b-40a4-ada7-317fb2c16766?source=cve
