Details
- Type
- Privilege Escalation
- Impact
- Privilege Escalation
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 9 September 2026
- Updated
- 15 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-269
Vendor fix
Update to a version later than 2.50.0 or the latest available version.
Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75927
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/capability-manager-enhanced/tags/2.50.0/includes/settings-handler.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3665572%40capability-manager-enhanced&new=3665572%40capability-manager-enhanced
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f35ab5c-f897-404b-92ea-71bf1c98e0c0?source=cve
- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/capability-manager-enhanced/vulnerability/wordpress-user-role-editor-publishpress-capabilities-access-control-and-user-roles-plugin-2-50-0-authenticated-editor-privilege-escalation-to-fresh-install-default-capability-grant-vulnerability
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/capability-manager-enhanced/tags/2.50.0/classes/pp-capabilities-installer.php#L78
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/capability-manager-enhanced/tags/2.50.0/includes/admin-load.php#L758
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/capability-manager-enhanced/tags/2.50.0/includes/functions-admin.php#L361
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/capability-manager-enhanced/tags/2.50.0/includes/manager.php#L1186