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AutomatorWP <= 1.7.5 — Privilege Escalation

CVE-2021-24717Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.7.6Update to 1.7.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

AutomatorWP – No-Code Workflow Automation, Integration & Webhooks Plugin, now with AI automatorwp

  1. Affected< 1.7.6
  2. Patched in1.7.6

Update to 1.7.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.7.6. Version 1.7.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under AutomatorWP – No-Code Workflow Automation, Integration & Webhooks Plugin, now with AI.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.7.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch AutomatorWP – No-Code Workflow Automation, Integration & Webhooks Plugin, now with AI to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to apple502j.

The AutomatorWP WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not perform capability checks which allows users with Subscriber roles to enumerate automations, disclose title of private posts or user emails, call functions, or perform privilege escalation via Ajax actions.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
<6.0.8Update to 6.0.8
CVE-2026-121472
High7.5Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Insufficient Role Validation in Anonymous Automation 'Role' Option
≤6.0.4Update to 6.0.5
CVE-2026-104768
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤6.0.6Update to 6.0.7
CVE-2026-118239
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Disclosure via wp_ajax_automatorwp_fluentform_get_forms AJAX Action
≤5.8.4Update to 5.8.5
CVE-2026-104728
Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤5.8.3Update to 5.8.4
CVE-2026-78266

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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