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GHSA-P495-V7FQ-HQR5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-10 06:30 – Updated: 2026-10-10 06:30

Details

The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9 This is due to a missing ownership and capability check on the user parameter within the process_edit() function, which allows any authenticated user with the edit_contacts capability to reassign a contact record's linked WordPress user ID to any arbitrary account without requiring the edit_users or promote_users capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with sales_rep-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by linking a contact to an administrator's WordPress user ID, then creating a note containing the {auto_login_link} replacement tag to trigger generation of a valid auto-login permissions-key URL for the administrator-linked contact, and finally visiting that URL to authenticate as the targeted administrator. The auto-login URL is stored in the note content and is readable back by the attacker via the view_notes and add_notes capabilities that the sales_rep role holds by default.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-104725 (GCVE-0-2026-104725)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-10 05:30 – Updated: 2026-10-11 16:55

Title

Groundhogg <= 4.9 - Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation to 'user' Parameter

Summary

The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9 This is due to a missing ownership and capability check on the `user` parameter within the `process_edit()` function, which allows any authenticated user with the `edit_contacts` capability to reassign a contact record's linked WordPress user ID to any arbitrary account without requiring the `edit_users` or `promote_users` capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with sales_rep-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by linking a contact to an administrator's WordPress user ID, then creating a note containing the `{auto_login_link}` replacement tag to trigger generation of a valid auto-login permissions-key URL for the administrator-linked contact, and finally visiting that URL to authenticate as the targeted administrator. The auto-login URL is stored in the note content and is readable back by the attacker via the `view_notes` and `add_notes` capabilities that the sales_rep role holds by default.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-11 16:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2154 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ground…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ground…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ground…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ground…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ground…
https://github.com/groundhoggwp/groundhogg/commit…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?repo…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
trainingbusinesspros	Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation	Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.9 (semver)

Credits

Wordfence PRISM

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