Smart Manager – Advanced WooCommerce Bulk Edit & Inventory Management <= 8.85.0 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-45216Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤8.85.0Update to 8.86.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 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
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Smart Manager – WooCommerce Bulk Edit: Products, Orders, Users & More (Spreadsheet) smart-manager-for-wp-e-commerce
- Affected≤ 8.85.0
- Patched in8.86.0
Update to 8.86.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 8.85.0. Version 8.86.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Smart Manager – WooCommerce Bulk Edit: Products, Orders, Users & More (Spreadsheet).
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 8.86.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Smart Manager – WooCommerce Bulk Edit: Products, Orders, Users & More (Spreadsheet) to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Nguyen Ba Khanh.
The Smart Manager – Advanced WooCommerce Bulk Edit & Inventory Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 8.85.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges 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
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Smart Manager – WooCommerce Bulk Edit: Products, Orders, Users & More (Spreadsheet)
All 8| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection to Privilege Escalation via 'access_privileges' Parameter ≤8.97.0Update to 8.98.0 | CVE-2026-18443 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤8.90.0Update to 8.91.0 | CVE-2026-57704 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤8.91.0Update to 8.92.0 | CVE-2026-14203 | |
| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection ≤8.52.0Update to 8.53.0 | CVE-2025-22710 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤8.45.0Update to 8.46.0 | CVE-2024-49687 |
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection to Privilege Escalation via 'access_privileges' Parameter
≤8.97.0Update to 8.98.0
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤8.90.0Update to 8.91.0
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤8.91.0Update to 8.92.0
- Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
≤8.52.0Update to 8.53.0
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤8.45.0Update to 8.46.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- 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.