The B2BKing — Ultimate WooCommerce B2B and Wholesale Plugin — Wholesale Prices, Bulk Order Form & More WordPress plugin before 5.2.40 does not verify that a role selected during registration is one actually offered on the registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to assign themselves to restricted B2B customer groups and to skip the manual account-approval workflow during self-registration.
CVE-2026-85038
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-06. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 39(Track)EG Risk 39/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity53% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 21%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 6, 2026
Last Modified
September 8, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Sep 6, 2026B2BKing < 5.2.40 – Unauthenticated B2B Group Assignment and Approval Bypass via Registration Role Selection | CVE 2026-85038 | Plugin Vulnerabilities
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a397aeaf-7629-45dd-a2ee-3e904cc19550/Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-85038(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 56× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-09-25 02:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-25 02:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-24 00:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-24 00:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-22 22:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-22 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-21 20:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-21 20:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-20 18:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-19 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-19 16:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-18 14:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 14:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 13:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-17 13:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-16 14:09 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 10:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 08:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-15 08:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-14 06:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-14 06:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-13 04:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-13 04:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-12 03:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-12 03:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-11 01:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-11 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-09 23:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-09 23:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-08 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-08 16:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-08 16:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-07 14:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-07 14:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-06 11:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 10:49 UTCEG score recompute▲ 5.30
- 2026-09-06 10:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-06 10:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 5.3 · severity → MEDIUM
- 2026-09-06 07:32 UTCNVD update
- 2026-09-06 06:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-06 06:30 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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