The Dokan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
The Dokan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the CustomersController REST controller (includes/REST/CustomersController.php), which re-registers WooCommerce's customer CRUD routes under the /dokan/v1/customers/ namespace and replaces WooCommerce's native manage_woocommerce capability check with a vendor-only check that inspects the requesting user's role and never validates the target user. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Vendor/Seller-level access and above to read, modify, or delete any WordPress user — including administrators — via GET/PUT/DELETE requests against /wp-json/dokan/v1/customers/{id}. Setting the password parameter on an administrator's record yields a full site takeover.
🔗 References (12)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8761
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L280
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L281
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L60
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L80
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L280
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L281
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L60
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/CustomersController.php#L80
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3541712%40dokan-lite%2Ftags%2F5.0.3&old=3535602%40dokan-lite%2Ftags%2F5.0.2
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24666f75-9179-4043-841b-4dd83be078e8?source=cve
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7fj-7hxw-7x69