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CVE-2026-16635: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in pronamic Pronamic Pay

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-16635cvecve-2026-16635cwe-269
Published: 08/01/2026 (08/01/2026, 08:32:29 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: pronamic
Product: Pronamic Pay

Description

The Pronamic Pay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 10.1.0 This is due to the `maybe_update_user_role()` function passing an attacker-controlled Gravity Forms field value (`$lead[$feed->user_role_field_id]`) directly into `WP_User::set_role()` without any allowlist validation, capability comparison, or permission check to constrain which roles can be assigned. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their own WordPress account to Administrator by tampering with the role field value in a form submission. Exploitation requires that an administrator has already configured a Pronamic Pay payment feed in Gravity Forms with the **Update User Role** option enabled and mapped to a form field; once that configuration is in place, no further preconditions exist to prevent an authenticated attacker from exploiting this vulnerability.

CVSS v3.1

Score 8.8high

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
Wordfence
Date Reserved
2026-07-22T16:41:01.494Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a6dba19bf32cb7a347ed90c

Added to database: 08/01/2026, 09:19:21 UTC

Last updated: 08/01/2026, 09:19:21 UTC

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