MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-92540 (CVSS 7.2)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 20, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.1%

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 does not correctly enforce the promote_users capability when assigning roles during a CSV import, allowing users with only the create_users capability to create new administrator accounts or promote existing users to administrator.

Technical details

CVSS

7.2

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:HighUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

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