CVE-2016-10968

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

The peepso-core plugin before 1.6.1 for WordPress has PeepSoProfilePreferencesAjax->save() privilege escalation.

Affected products

PeepSo Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles: before 1.6.1 — fixed in 1.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PeepSo Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles 1.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.pritect.net/blog/peepso-1-6-0-logged-user-privilege-escalation
https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/#developers
http://www.pritect.net/blog/peepso-1-6-0-logged-user-privilege-escalation
https://wordpress.org/plugins/peepso-core/#developers

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