Account takeover via unchecked user impersonation
Published Oct 9, 2026 · Updated Oct 9, 2026
Privilege escalation in FooSales POS before 1.43.3 allows remote authenticated users to take over accounts via user impersonation. The WordPress plugin acts as the user named in a request without verifying that the caller is entitled to assume that identity. Any authenticated account can target another user, including an administrator, exposing account details and enabling takeover of the targeted account.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in FooSales POS before 1.43.3 allows remote authenticated users to take over accounts via user impersonation. The WordPress plugin acts as the user named in a request without verifying that the caller is entitled to assume that identity. Any authenticated account can target another user, including an administrator, exposing account details and enabling takeover of the targeted account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-93548
- Published
- Oct 9, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 9, 2026
- Vendor
- FooSales
- Product
- FooSales Point of Sale (POS) for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 9, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.43.3
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