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CVE-2026-14279: Wholesale Market <= 2.2.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via 'role_required' Parameter
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-15 · updated 2026-08-20
- Weakness: CWE-269
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. 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.
Affected products
- Wholesale Market: through 2.2.2
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L141
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L153
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L30
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abd59d7a-e7f6-440d-9c2a-00266c0dcbff?source=cve
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