CVE-2026-8761

8.8 HIGH

Published 2026-08-05 · Updated 2026-08-05

AI risk analysis

Summary: The flaw allows authenticated attackers with Vendor/Seller-level access to escalate privileges and manipulate any WordPress user, including administrators, through REST API requests.
Exploitability: Exploitation is relatively straightforward for attackers who have Vendor/Seller-level access, requiring only basic knowledge of the API endpoints.
Blast radius: The impact is high as it can lead to full site takeover by compromising administrator accounts.
Prioritized remediation: Update Dokan plugin to the latest version immediately or uninstall and replace with a secure alternative.

auth-bypasspriv-escalationwebwp

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NVD 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-862

All references

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