Woocommerce Customers Manager <= 26.4 — Authenticated Account Creation and Privilege Escalation
486fa1a6-aa47-4bf9-b1da-582e316f6bcbPublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: <26.5Update to 26.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
WooCommerce Customers Manager woocommerce-customers-manager
- Affected< 26.5
- Patched in26.5
Update to 26.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 26.5. Version 26.5 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WooCommerce Customers Manager.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 26.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WooCommerce Customers Manager to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to John Castro.
The Woocommerce Customers Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability checks in the user import in versions up to, and including, 26.4. This makes it possible for Subscriber-level attackers to import arbitrary user information to create or update administrative accounts.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in WooCommerce Customers Manager
All 10| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation ≤31.3Update to 31.4 | CVE-2024-13343 | |
| Medium6.4 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤30.1Update to 30.2 | CVE-2024-1747 | |
| Medium5.4 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Customer Deletion <30.1Update to 30.1 | CVE-2024-3983 | |
| Medium5.4 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Customer Deletion via 'Delete' <30.1Update to 30.1 | CVE-2024-2843 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤29.7Update to 29.8 | CVE-2024-1743 |
- High8.8Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
≤31.3Update to 31.4
- Medium6.4Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤30.1Update to 30.2
- Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery to Customer Deletion
<30.1Update to 30.1
- Medium5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery to Customer Deletion via 'Delete'
<30.1Update to 30.1
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤29.7Update to 29.8
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.