WordPress plugin
MultiLoca <= 4.2.15 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-39546Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.2.15Update to 4.2.16 or newer
All remediation stepsHigh8.8CVSS 3.18.8CISA KEVNot listedAccessLow-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2026-39546
- Product
- MultiLoca - WooCommerce Multi Locations Inventory Management WooCommerce-Multi-Locations-Inventory-Management
- Affected
- ≤4.2.15
- Fixed in
- 4.2.16
- Required access
- Low-privilege account (e.g. subscriber)
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Denver Jackson
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 4.2.15
- Patched in4.2.16
Update to 4.2.16 or newer.
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: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
The MultiLoca - WooCommerce Multi Locations Inventory Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 4.2.16, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 9.8CVE-2025-9054WooCommerce Multi Locations Inventory Management <= 4.2.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update via 'wcmlim_settings_ajax_handler'
- 6.5CVE-2024-13341WooCommerce Multi Locations Inventory Management <= 4.1.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
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.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.