The Mobile builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Mobile builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 via the wcfmmp_profile_settings() REST handler exposed at POST /mobile-builder/v1/wcfm-profile-settings. This is due to a PHP loose-comparison logic flaw in the meta key allow-list check — strpos( $key, 'mobile_builder' ) == 0 evaluates to true for any key that does not contain the substring 'mobile_builder' because strpos() returns false on no match and false == 0 is true in PHP — combined with a permission_callback (user_permissions_check) that grants access to any authenticated user by only verifying $user->exists(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to pass an unsanitized data array via the key and data parameters directly to update_user_meta(), overwriting arbitrary user meta on their own account — including the wp_capabilities meta key — to grant themselves Administrator-level privileges.
🔗 References (9)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104799
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L344
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L78
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L88
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L93
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.php#L94
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1a233e-ea62-4fb0-98eb-6b2aa893555d?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9pxh-r9hv-cxqf