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WPC Admin Columns 2.0.6 — 2.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update

CVE-2025-3418Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: 2.0.6 – 2.1.0Update to 2.1.1 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
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?

WPC Admin Columns wpc-admin-columns

  1. Affected2.0.6 – 2.1.0
  2. Patched in2.1.1

Update to 2.1.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run 2.0.6 – 2.1.0. Version 2.1.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPC Admin Columns.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.1.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WPC Admin Columns to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to kr0d.

The WPC Admin Columns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 2.0.6 to 2.1.0. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting user meta values that can be updated through the ajax_edit_save() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to that of an administrator.

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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All 2
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Information Exposure to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary User/Post/Term Meta Disclosure
≤2.3.3Update to 2.3.4
CVE-2026-18943

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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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