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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator when the site administrator has enabled the 'Assigning requested role directly' option.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00523,"percentile":0.44901,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"published":"2026-08-15T06:38:10Z","modified":"2026-08-20T12:48:10Z","products":[{"vendor":"cedcommerce","product":"wholesale market"},{"vendor":"unknown","product":"wholesale market"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abd59d7a-e7f6-440d-9c2a-00266c0dcbff?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L141"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L153"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L276"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L30"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14279"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wv24-4cw2-5gxg"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-14279","title":"Wholesale Market \u003c= 2.2.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via 'role_required' Parameter","description":"The Wholesale Market plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.2.2 via the ced_wholesale_request_send AJAX action. The ced_wholesale_request_send_callback() handler only verifies a nonce (which is exposed to any authenticated user through wp_localize_script on the frontend) and that the caller has a positive user ID, then calls WP_User::add_role() with the client-supplied role_required POST parameter without restricting the value to an allowlist of wholesale roles. 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This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator when the site administrator has enabled the 'Assigning requested role directly' option.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-15T06:38:10Z","modified":"2026-08-18T19:33:27Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:46.060074Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-wv24-4cw2-5gxg","title":"The Wholesale Market plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to...","description":"The Wholesale Market plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.2.2 via the ced_wholesale_request_send AJAX action. 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