Customer-to-Administrator escalation via insecure operator resolution
Published Jul 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026
Privilege escalation in Customer Switching for WooCommerce before 2.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to take over administrator accounts. The switching flow resolves an active impersonation session as its initiating operator without binding that session to the currently authenticated customer. Exploitation requires an operator to remain switched into the attacker's customer account; that customer can then submit a valid nonce and target administrator ID.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Customer Switching for WooCommerce before 2.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to take over administrator accounts. The switching flow resolves an active impersonation session as its initiating operator without binding that session to the currently authenticated customer. Exploitation requires an operator to remain switched into the attacker's customer account; that customer can then submit a valid nonce and target administrator ID.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-15240
- Published
- Jul 30, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- Vendor
- Maksimer
- Product
- Customer Switching for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- CWE-287, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 30, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 30, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.1.3
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- WPScan browser-console proof of conceptfunctional · validated
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