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Wholesale for WooCommerce <= 2.0.5 — Authenticated (Author+) Privilege Escalation via 'user_role_set' Parameter

CVE-2026-12144Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.5Update to 2.0.6 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?

Wholesale for WooCommerce – Ultimate AI-Powered B2B Ecommerce Solution – Bulk Order Form, Quotes, & More woo-wholesale-pricing

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.5
  2. Patched in2.0.6

Update to 2.0.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.5. Version 2.0.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Wholesale for WooCommerce – Ultimate AI-Powered B2B Ecommerce Solution – Bulk Order Form, Quotes, & More.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.0.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Wholesale for WooCommerce – Ultimate AI-Powered B2B Ecommerce Solution – Bulk Order Form, Quotes, & More to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Chloe Chamberland, Wordfence PRISM.

The Wholesale for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.5. This is due to the `save_requests_meta()` function applying only `sanitize_text_field()` to the `user_role_set` POST parameter before passing it directly to `WP_User::add_role()`, with no allowlist validation against permitted wholesale roles and no capability check such as `current_user_can('promote_users')` or `current_user_can('manage_options')`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level access and above to escalate their privileges to administrator by supplying `administrator` as the `user_role_set` value in a crafted request. The function is gated only by a nonce (`request_user_role_nonce`) that is rendered in the meta box on the `wwp_requests` post edit screen; because the post type is registered with `capability_type => 'post'`, any author-level user who has authored a `wwp_requests` post — such as one created via the wholesale registration form — can access this nonce and submit the role-assignment request.

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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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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