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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2026-16534

Import and export users and customers < 2.4.2 - Custom Role Privilege Escalation to Administrator via CSV Import

Description

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator account and to overwrite an existing administrator's password or email.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Unknown Import and export users and customers

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 2.4.2affected

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