This vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become exploited. Vulnerabilities like this one are used in mass-exploit campaigns. Attackers use these to attack thousands of websites at a time, regardless of traffic size or popularity. Learn more.
As immediate action, update the affected plugin. If you're unable to do so, ask your hosting provider or web developer for help.
Due to the specific nature of this vulnerability, no virtual patch can be assigned to it. However, since exploiting this vulnerability depends on preconditions such as the presence of SQL injection (CVE-2026-5073, CVE-2026-5074 affecting the same versions), and since we have released vPatches to protect against these, the risk of successful exploitation is minimal.
This can be abused by a malicious actor to perform action which normally should only be able to be executed by higher privileged users. These actions might allow the malicious actor to gain admin access to the website.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Update to version 7.3.2 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.
Published by Patchstack
4 Jun, 2026