The Knit Pay – Cashfree, Instamojo, Razorpay, PayPal and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Knit Pay – Cashfree, Instamojo, Razorpay, PayPal and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 9.6.1.0. This is due to the maybe_update_user_role() function reading the target role directly from an attacker-controlled Gravity Forms entry field — configured via the feed's user_role_field_id — and passing it to WP_User::set_role() without validating the supplied value against an allowlist of permitted roles. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to administrator by tampering with the hidden role field value at form submission time. Exploitation is further enabled by the fact that $0 orders are synchronously marked as SUCCESS during form submission without requiring a real payment, and when no GF User Registration user can be resolved, the role assignment target falls back to $lead['created_by'] — the currently authenticated submitter's own user ID — making any authenticated form submitter an eligible exploitation target.
🔗 References (12)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89426
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.4.0.1/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L381
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.4.0.1/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L384
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.4.0.1/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L989
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.4.0.1/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Processor.php#L493
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.6.1.0/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L381
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.6.1.0/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L384
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.6.1.0/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Extension.php#L989
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/knit-pay/tags/9.6.1.0/packages/wp-pay-extensions/gravityforms/src/Processor.php#L493
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3706862%40knit-pay&new=3706862%40knit-pay
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ee5df686-7bf8-42cc-9356-92570bd02355?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mhvq-rh33-27cf