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WPify Woo <= 5.4.16 — Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Option Update via save_option REST Endpoint

CVE-2026-12736Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.4.16Update to 5.4.17 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.0
CVSS
8.0
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
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?

WPify Woo – Withdrawal, CRN/VAT, QR payments, Heureka and more for WooCommerce wpify-woo

  1. Affected≤ 5.4.16
  2. Patched in5.4.17

Update to 5.4.17 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.4.16. Version 5.4.17 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WPify Woo – Withdrawal, CRN/VAT, QR payments, Heureka and more for WooCommerce.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.4.17, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WPify Woo – Withdrawal, CRN/VAT, QR payments, Heureka and more for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Wordfence PRISM.

The Wpify Woo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.4.16. This is due to the SettingsApi::save_option() REST route (POST /wp-json/wpify-woo/v1/option) passing the request-supplied 'option' and 'data' parameters directly to update_option() without any option-name allowlist or value sanitization, while the permission_callback only verifies the manage_woocommerce capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator by overwriting arbitrary WordPress options (for example setting default_role to administrator and users_can_register to 1, or disabling security plugins via active_plugins).

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 8.0

  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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