The Import and export users and customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Import and export users and customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.11 This is due to a non-atomic multi-option write sequence in the ACUI_Cron::save_settings() function, which persists acui_cron_activated, acui_cron_configured_by, acui_cron_user_id, and acui_cron_path_to_file before reaching the authorization gate that calls wp_die() when a non-promoter submits a role. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers holding a custom delegated role with create_users but without promote_users or edit_users to escalate their privileges to Administrator, provided a prior administrator cron-tab save exists and no successful save intervenes before the next unattended cron tick processes the attacker's repointed CSV file.
🔗 References (10)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120554
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.5.7/classes/cron.php#L101
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.5.7/classes/cron.php#L166
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.5.7/classes/cron.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.5.7/classes/import.php#L1104
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.5.7/classes/import.php#L909
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3775652/import-users-from-csv-with-meta
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3775652/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/classes/cron.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4db0991f-fc89-411b-b0df-1a11c9ddec1f?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-63fg-ffv3-2xr7