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CVE-2026-84795 Sep 02, 11:11 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in Craft CMS before 5.10.11 lets remote attackers gain administrator rights by registering a new account using the email address of a previously deactivated admin, because the admin flag is not validated and persists across registration. Exploitation requires public user registration to be enabled and email verification to be disabled. Reported by VulnCheck with a vendor security advisory (GHSA-242m-9wq7-vhwq); no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Cms Craftcms
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
9.2
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-80467 Sep 02, 06:00 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation to administrator in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.7 allows unauthenticated visitors to bypass role restrictions enforced on front-end user registration forms. The plugin fails to validate that a submitted role value matches those actually offered by the configured form, and its blocklist against privileged roles is incomplete, enabling a two-stage attack: register with an elevated role, then escalate that account to full site administrator. A publicly available exploit exists per WPScan disclosure, raising the urgency of patching; no public KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Advanced Custom Fields Unknown
NVD WPScan VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-19453 Sep 02, 06:00 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the JetBackup WordPress plugin before 3.1.23.5 allows a subscriber-level user to gain full administrator access by exploiting the plugin's failure to validate account roles during a site restore or migration. When the site owner performs a legitimate backup restore or migration, JetBackup blindly preserves and promotes accounts in the backup set without re-verifying their roles or capabilities, silently elevating an attacker's low-privilege account to administrator. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists per WPScan, though no confirmed mass exploitation (CISA KEV) is on record; the CVSS 7.1 score (AC:H/UI:R) reflects real-world complexity imposed by the site-owner trigger.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jetbackup Unknown
NVD WPScan
CVSS 3.1
7.1
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-9055 Sep 02, 04:26 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the WordPress plugin Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar - Amelia (Premium) versions 8.0 through 9.6.2 lets remote attackers gain full administrator control of a site. By abusing insufficient validation of the 'type' parameter in the customer update endpoint (with 'externalId' set to 0), an attacker elevates a customer to the manager role, then creates a provider entity linked to an existing administrator and overwrites that administrator's password. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 9.8 rating and unauthenticated network reachability make this a high-priority patch for affected sites.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Booking For Appointments And Events Calendar Amelia Melograno
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-73779 Sep 01, 20:28 HIGH This Week

Authentication bypass in HPE AOS-CX switch operating system allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker, under high-complexity conditions, to circumvent authentication controls and achieve both integrity compromise and sensitive information exposure. The scope change in the CVSS vector (S:C) indicates successful exploitation can extend impact beyond the directly targeted switch - relevant in networked environments where a compromised switch becomes a pivot point. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Aos Cx Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.2
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-73725 Sep 01, 19:47 HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows an attacker holding a low-privileged local account to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, achieving complete host compromise. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L) confirms exploitation is confined to the local system and requires high attack complexity - consistent with a race condition or SUID-binary class of flaw. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation RCE Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-73724 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API permits an authenticated low-privilege operator to invoke API operations that should require higher authorization, enabling unauthorized modification of system settings. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms the exploit path is network-accessible with no user interaction required beyond holding a valid operator-role credential. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, though this CVE belongs to a broader cluster of HPE Fabric Composer vulnerabilities reported under the same advisory.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.1
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-73723 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's web-based management interface allows authenticated operator-level users to execute state-changing actions beyond their authorized scope. The CVSS vector (PR:L/I:H) confirms exploitation requires low-privilege credentials but yields high-integrity impact - unauthorized modification of platform state that should be gated to higher-privilege roles. No active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.1
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-73719 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Arbitrary file write via the HPE Networking Fabric Composer API enables an authenticated administrative user to escalate privileges to root on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability allows admin-level API users to write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem paths, which can then be leveraged to execute arbitrary OS commands as root. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2026-73714 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Broken access control in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API allows authenticated low-privilege operator users to read data beyond their authorized scope, potentially enabling lateral movement or privilege escalation within the management plane. The vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity once a valid operator credential is obtained, as reflected by the CVSS 7.6 score (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L). No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.6
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-73713 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows an attacker with low-level local access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the host operating system. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires only a local foothold with minimal privileges - no user interaction or elevated rights needed beyond initial system access. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; however, HPE has published a security bulletin acknowledging the issue.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-73711 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation via an unauthenticated API endpoint in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows a remote attacker to obtain administrative privileges and achieve complete compromise of the Fabric Composer host. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N) confirms network-accessible, unauthenticated exploitation, though AC:H indicates a non-trivial exploitation condition such as a race, specific request sequence, or transient configuration state. No active exploitation is confirmed and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-73707 Sep 01, 19:46 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the HPE Networking Fabric Composer API allows authenticated low-privilege operator users to invoke state-changing API operations beyond their authorized scope, including modifications to configurations of network systems managed by the platform. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/I:H) confirms the flaw is remotely exploitable with no complexity or interaction requirements, and that the integrity impact extends beyond Fabric Composer itself to the downstream network infrastructure it manages. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis, but the low exploitation barrier - a valid low-privilege credential - makes this a meaningful insider and credential-theft escalation risk.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.5
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-45221 Sep 01, 19:39 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Easybyte Software's Konga before 2.1.0 allows any authenticated local Windows user to execute arbitrary code at the privilege level of the account running Konga by planting attacker-controlled OpenSSL configuration or library files in a hardcoded filesystem path that is absent from default installations and resides in a location writable by all authenticated users. The root cause is CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element): Konga loads OpenSSL from a fixed, predictable path without verifying the integrity or provenance of files found there, enabling a classic library-planting attack. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; a vendor patch is available in version 2.1.0.

Privilege Escalation RCE OpenSSL Konga
NVD
CVSS 4.0
8.5
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-73702 Sep 01, 19:32 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API allows an authenticated low-privilege operator user to elevate permissions to administrative level, resulting in complete system compromise. The flaw is exploitable over the network without user interaction, making it accessible to any attacker holding a valid operator account. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a credible internal-threat vector in any environment where operator credentials are broadly issued or have been exposed.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-63137 Sep 01, 19:20 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Kibana allows an authenticated user holding workflow edit permissions to cause scheduled workflow executions to run under the privileges of a higher-privileged user, granting unauthorized read and write access to data outside their authorization scope. The flaw (CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization) stems from Kibana's workflow scheduling subsystem failing to enforce authorization boundaries when executing scheduled jobs - a pattern classified under CAPEC-180. No public exploit exists at time of analysis, but the CVSS 8.3 (High) score with a network-accessible, low-privilege attack vector reflects genuine impact for any multi-user Kibana deployment. Elastic's advisory ESA-2026-61 references Kibana 9.4.3 as the fix release.

Privilege Escalation Elastic Kibana
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.3
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-9634 Sep 01, 13:45 HIGH CISA This Week

Privilege escalation in Rockwell Automation's Redundancy Module Configuration Tool (RMConfigTool.exe) enables a local standard user to execute arbitrary code with Administrator or SYSTEM privileges via DLL search order hijacking. The tool searches system PATH directories for required DLLs, and one or more of those directories have incorrect default permissions allowing write access by non-privileged accounts; if a malicious DLL is planted there before an administrator runs the tool, it loads into the elevated process. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, though the underlying technique is well-understood and commonly leveraged in post-exploitation privilege escalation chains.

Privilege Escalation Redundancy Module Configuration Tool Rockwell Automation
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-9633 Sep 01, 13:45 HIGH CISA This Week

DLL hijacking in Rockwell Automation's Redundancy Module Configuration Tool (RM3ConfigTool.exe) allows a local low-privileged attacker to escalate to Administrator or SYSTEM privileges by planting a malicious DLL in a writable system PATH directory before an administrator launches the utility. The root cause is CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions): the installer grants standard users write access to one or more directories that RM3ConfigTool.exe searches at runtime for a required DLL, enabling the classic DLL planting technique. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Redundancy Module Configuration Tool Rockwell Automation
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-16675 Sep 01, 13:18 HIGH CISA This Week

Privilege escalation in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Activation Manager exposes authenticated local Windows users to full SYSTEM-level access by exploiting visible console windows spawned by the installer's custom actions during installation or repair operations. Any low-privileged user present on the machine during an install or repair sequence can interact with these unprotected, SYSTEM-privileged console windows to launch an unrestricted command shell. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack technique - console window hijacking during elevated installer operations - is a well-documented Windows privilege escalation class requiring minimal skill once the precondition is met.

Privilege Escalation Factorytalk Activation Manager Rockwell Automation
NVD
CVSS 4.0
8.5
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-84128 Sep 01, 12:18 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Firefox's WebDriver BiDi component allows network-based attackers, with user interaction, to achieve full compromise of the browser process across confidentiality, integrity, and availability dimensions. All Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 155 are affected, as confirmed by vendor advisory mfsa2026-82 and the wildcard CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and SSVC confirms no observed exploitation, though CISA rates the technical impact as total.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-84123 Sep 01, 12:18 HIGH PATCH This Week

Use-after-free in Firefox's WebGPU graphics component allows privilege escalation when a victim visits a specially crafted webpage. Affecting all Firefox versions prior to 155 and ESR prior to 153.2, a remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger memory corruption by delivering malicious WebGPU content, achieving full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (CVSS 8.8). No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; SSVC confirms exploitation status as none and the attack is not automatable due to required user interaction.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption Mozilla Suse
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-84117 Sep 01, 12:18 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Mozilla Firefox for Android (versions prior to 155) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability by exploiting improper access control (CWE-284) when a user interacts with attacker-controlled content. Mozilla confirmed the fix in Firefox 155, documented under MFSA2026-82. No public exploit code exists and CISA has not added this to KEV, though SSVC rates the technical impact as 'total', underscoring the severity if successfully triggered.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-84131 Sep 01, 12:18 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Mozilla Firefox's Graphics component via an invalid pointer (CWE-763) exposes users running all Firefox versions prior to 155 and ESR branches prior to 115.40, 140.15, and 153.2 to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS 8.8 network-vector score with no required privileges but mandatory user interaction (UI:R) places this squarely in the drive-by exploitation category - a victim visiting a crafted webpage is sufficient to trigger the flaw. No active exploitation is confirmed at time of analysis (SSVC exploitation: none, no KEV listing), but the total technical impact rating and the broad Firefox install base make this a high-priority patching target.

Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-76111 Sep 01, 11:37 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Dell PowerStore storage appliances allows an authenticated low-privilege user to invoke administrator-only management operations via the network, resulting in full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise of the storage system. The flaw stems from incorrect authorization checks (CWE-863), where the system fails to enforce proper privilege boundaries on API or management interface operations. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing, but the low attack complexity and high-impact CVSS 8.8 rating make this a credible threat in multi-tenant or shared-access storage environments.

Privilege Escalation Dell Powerstore 500T Powerstore 1000T Powerstore 1200T +9
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-18550 Sep 01, 11:31 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated account takeover in the Nokri - Job Board WordPress theme (versions through 1.6.6) lets remote attackers reset any user's password, including administrators. The flaw stems from the nokri_reset_password() function accepting an empty reset token that matches the empty or unset sb_password_forget_token user meta value, so no valid token is ever needed. Reported by Wordfence and rated CVSS 9.8; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing is identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Nokri Job Board Wordpress Theme Scriptsbundle
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-67394 Sep 01, 02:07 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation to root in Plesk for Linux (18.0.34 up to 18.0.79.9 / 18.0.80.5) lets a customer- or reseller-level account with shell access run OS command injection (CWE-78) to take over the entire hosting server. Any tenant permitted to use - or to toggle on - their own shell access can break out of their restricted account and reach the root identity, collapsing the isolation between shared-hosting customers and the host. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the vendor rates it critical (CVSS 9.0) and has shipped fixed builds.

Privilege Escalation Command Injection Plesk Webpros
NVD
CVSS 4.0
9.0
EPSS
1.2%
CVE-2026-82346 Aug 31, 20:35 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in HP ImageDiags prior to version 5.0.0.36 enables a local low-privileged attacker - contingent on active interaction by a higher-privileged user - to gain elevated system privileges through insufficient access controls on temporary file resources (CWE-379). All versions of HP ImageDiags before 5.0.0.36 are affected per HP security bulletin HPSBGN04143. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Privilege Escalation HP Hp Imagediags Hp Inc
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-81297 Aug 31, 20:30 HIGH This Week

Subscriber-level privilege escalation in Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack (versions <= 6.2.12) allows authenticated users with minimal access to gain significantly elevated permissions within a WordPress installation. Reported by Patchstack against the wp_manage_ninja plugin, the flaw stems from incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266), meaning subscriber-role accounts can trigger functionality reserved for higher-privileged roles such as administrators. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, though the network-accessible attack vector and high CVSS impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability make this a meaningful risk for any WordPress site accepting subscriber registrations.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack Wp Manage Ninja
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.5
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-79744 Aug 31, 18:17 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in MCPHub prior to version 1.0.29 allows any authenticated low-privilege user to modify system-wide configuration via the PUT /api/system-config endpoint. The handler updateSystemConfig never validates req.user.isAdmin, meaning the app-wide authentication middleware - which only confirms a valid session exists - is the sole barrier, granting any account holder effective administrative control over routing rules and server integrations. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack is trivially reproducible given network access and any valid credential.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-82807 Aug 31, 16:19 HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in ieungSoft Ultra RAMDisk Pro 1.82 allows a low-privileged local user to gain SYSTEM or kernel-level control via improper privilege management in the URDSCSI.sys kernel driver (CWE-266). The vendor did not respond to coordinated disclosure, leaving no official patch; a public proof-of-concept exploit exists, confirmed by the CVSS 4.0 E:P metric and a detailed write-up. No active exploitation has been confirmed in CISA KEV, but the low exploitation barrier (low-privilege local access, no interaction, public PoC) makes this a credible post-compromise escalation tool.

Privilege Escalation
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.5
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-82869 Aug 31, 08:46 HIGH PATCH This Week

Cross-workspace privilege escalation in ToolJet Database before v3.16.44 enables any authenticated user to read database tables belonging to arbitrary workspaces by supplying victim workspace identifiers in the join_tables endpoint request path. The endpoint grants JOIN_TABLES capability to all authenticated users without validating role membership or workspace affiliation, breaking ToolJet's multi-tenant isolation entirely. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 8.2 reflects high confidentiality impact across both the vulnerable and subsequent systems in shared deployments.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Tooljet
NVD GitHub VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.2
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-82860 Aug 31, 08:46 npm CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in the @hulumi/policies npm package before 1.3.2 lets attackers bypass the administrator-policy guardrail (CIS 1.16) by crafting admin-equivalent inline or attached IAM policy shapes that the validator failed to fully inspect. Any environment relying on this library to detect over-privileged IAM policies could silently pass admin-equivalent access as compliant. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Policies Hulumi
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
9.3
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-82857 Aug 31, 08:46 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in hulumi before v1.3.2 lets an actor holding the documented IAM principal abuse the weekly integration IAM policy to perform role lifecycle operations on af-e2e-* roles that lack sufficient permission-boundary restrictions. Because the policy allows role creation without a constraining boundary, the actor can mint persistent, higher-privilege roles inside the sandbox AWS account, converting scoped test access into durable elevated access. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Hulumi Kerberosmansour
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
9.3
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-82628 Aug 31, 07:00 CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Colorful iGameCenter 2.0.0.81 stems from its bundled WinRing0x64.sys driver, whose sub_11504 IOCTL handler exposes arbitrary physical-memory access via attacker-controlled PhysicalAddress/AlignNumer/AlignSize arguments. A low-privileged local user can abuse this IOCTL Dispatch path to read and write kernel-visible physical memory and escalate to SYSTEM. Publicly available exploit code exists for the underlying WinRing0 driver class, but this specific CVE is not listed in CISA KEV and EPSS is unavailable; no active exploitation is confirmed.

Privilege Escalation Igamecenter
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
9.3
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-75458 Aug 31, 00:00 HIGH This Week

Vertical privilege escalation in XueZhiSi XZS Open Source Exam System (versions <= 3.9.0) allows an authenticated teacher account (role=2) to permanently delete administrator accounts (role=3) via the POST /api/teacher/user/delete/{id} REST endpoint. The three-step delete sequence - getUserById(id), setDeleted(true), updateByIdFilter() - executes without any role-based authorization check on the target resource, enabling a lower-privileged user to destroy privileged accounts irreversibly. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists; EPSS sits at 0.15%, reflecting minimal observed activity at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-82649 Aug 30, 14:33 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in SiYuan's Windows NSIS installer affects versions 2.0.14 through 3.8.0, allowing a local attacker with write access to a directory to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges by planting a malicious binary that the NSIS installer resolves ahead of System32 during an all-users installation. The root cause is electron-builder's preInit hook invoking system utilities such as TASKKILL by short name via nsExec::Exec, causing the installer's launch directory to take search-path precedence over System32 before the license page is even displayed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the binary-planting technique is well-documented in Windows installer security research.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Siyuan Siyuan Note
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-15369 Aug 29, 19:26 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation to Administrator in the Addify Custom User Registration Fields for WooCommerce plugin (versions ≤ 2.2.3) lets unauthenticated attackers gain admin rights by supplying an arbitrary role slug during WooCommerce checkout. The plugin trusts an attacker-controlled afreg_select_user_role value from the unauthenticated Store API /wc/store/v1/checkout request and passes it straight to WP_User::add_role() without validating it against the admin-configured allowed role list. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the plugin's 'User Role Selection' feature to be enabled.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Custom User Registration Fields For Woocommerce Addify
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-16259 Aug 29, 06:00 CRITICAL POC Act Now

Account takeover in the Uix UserCenter WordPress plugin (all versions through 1.0.3) lets unauthenticated attackers seize any account, including administrators. The plugin's profile-update action never checks that the targeted account belongs to the requester and authorizes the action with a token signed by a hardcoded key that is identical on every installation, so an attacker can forge a valid token for any user and overwrite that user's email and password. Rated CVSS 9.8 with publicly available exploit code (WPScan), though EPSS is low at 0.14%.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Uix Usercenter Unknown
NVD WPScan VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-10522 Aug 29, 06:00 CRITICAL POC Act Now

Privilege escalation to full site takeover affects the MemberHero WordPress plugin through version 6.9, where the frontend registration flow fails to restrict which account fields a visitor may set, letting unauthenticated attackers self-register with an arbitrary role - including Administrator. Version 6.9 was advertised as the fix but the patch is incomplete, so current installs remain exploitable to gain admin access and hijack existing accounts, and no fully-fixed release exists at time of analysis. Publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), though EPSS remains low at 0.15% (4th percentile).

WordPress Privilege Escalation Memberhero Unknown
NVD WPScan VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.1%
Threat Model
CVE-2026-19295 Aug 28, 20:53 CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Authenticated command injection in IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.11.1 lets any logged-in flow user escalate to arbitrary OS command execution under the server process identity. By saving a flow containing a crafted 'type' field and triggering a build of a wrapper flow that references it, the attacker coerces the backend into evaluating attacker-controlled code, defeating the LANGFLOW_ALLOW_CUSTOM_COMPONENTS=false guardrail intended to block custom code execution. The vendor (IBM) reported it and has released a fix; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation IBM Code Injection Langflow Oss
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.9
EPSS
1.0%
CVE-2026-16821 Aug 28, 20:43 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 exploits a format string vulnerability (CWE-134) to allow a low-privileged local attacker to gain elevated - potentially root-level - privileges with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS sits at 0.10% (1st percentile), consistent with an SSVC exploitation status of 'none'. IBM has released a patch at the advisory linked below.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix Powervm Vios
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-56100 Aug 28, 18:00 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in SpringBlade 2.7.3 through 3.5.0 lets authenticated low-privilege users forge admin JWT tokens using a hardcoded signing key embedded in publicly distributed JARs, then POST to an unprotected internal Feign user-creation endpoint to register new system administrator accounts. The Spring Cloud Gateway authentication filter validates JWT structure but performs no role or caller-identity checks, making bypass trivial for anyone with initial account access. A public POC is available; vendor-released patch exists in v5.0.0; no CISA KEV listing confirmed at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Springblade
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
8.6
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-79996 Aug 28, 06:00 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 lets authenticated users holding the plugin's delegated management capability overwrite arbitrary WordPress site options, including those governing user roles, enabling full administrator takeover. The root cause is a missing capability check on the login settings save handler - the plugin fails to verify the caller's WordPress capabilities before persisting changes to the wp_options table. A public proof-of-concept exploit exists per WPScan; however, SSVC reports no active exploitation and the CVE is absent from CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation User Registration Membership Unknown
NVD WPScan
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-19423 Aug 28, 06:00 HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation to administrator in the Ultimate Member WordPress plugin (versions 2.6.7 through 2.12.x) allows unauthenticated users registering via the plugin's own forms to self-assign any WordPress role, including administrator, by exploiting a logic failure in role validation. When the plugin cannot resolve the allowed roles for a given profile form, it falls back to validating the submitted role against the full site-wide role registry rather than the form's own allow-list - accepting any valid registered role. A publicly available exploit exists per WPScan, though SSVC assessment indicates no confirmed active exploitation campaigns at time of analysis. Vendor-released patch is available in version 2.13.0.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Ultimate Member Unknown
NVD WPScan
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-18886 Aug 27, 19:00 CRITICAL Act Now

Improper access control in the ServiceNow AI Platform allows an unauthenticated user, under certain circumstances, to create or modify instance data beyond intended boundaries, resulting in privilege escalation. ServiceNow has patched hosted instances and supplied updates to partners and self-hosted customers; the vendor rates this maximum severity (CVSS 4.0 10.0) but reports no known exploitation. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Servicenow Servicenow Ai Platform
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
10.0
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-81682 Aug 27, 14:50 HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure default file permissions in the openssl_encrypt desktop GUI (jahlives/openssl_encrypt, all versions before 1.4.9) expose decrypted plaintext output files to any unprivileged local user on multi-user systems. Any co-resident local account can read sensitive plaintext written by the GUI without requiring elevated privileges or exploiting any authentication mechanism. No public exploit code has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; a vendor-confirmed patch is available at version 1.4.9.

Privilege Escalation Openssl Encrypt Jahlives
NVD VulDB GitHub
CVSS 4.0
8.6
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-81818 Aug 27, 13:14 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Flowintel's administrative user-edit API allows an organization administrator to modify full administrator accounts within their own organization, including resetting passwords, effectively enabling account takeover of a higher-privileged identity. Affected versions are 3.3.0 and above, as confirmed by upstream commit ffe64d1133b7d84909a69661bd5fee607e9ce757 which adds the missing role-hierarchy boundary check. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Flowintel
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
8.6
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-78271 Aug 27, 08:59 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FluentCRM Pro (WordPress plugin, versions <= 3.1.12) allows authenticated users holding the Editor role to elevate their access level, yielding full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact against the WordPress installation. Reported by Patchstack and scored CVSS 7.2 with PR:H, the flaw is rooted in CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment), meaning the plugin fails to correctly enforce role boundaries for Editors interacting with CRM functionality. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Fluentcrm Pro Wp Manage Ninja
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-32566 Aug 27, 08:59 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the ACPT (Pro) - Custom Post Types plugin for WordPress affects all versions up to and including 2.0.63, allowing remote attackers with no credentials to improperly gain elevated privileges (CWE-266). Rated CVSS 9.8, the flaw grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, effectively enabling site takeover. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the unauthenticated network vector makes it a high-priority patching target.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Acpt Pro Custom Post Types Plugin For Wordpress Acpt
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-81581 Aug 27, 07:46 HIGH PATCH This Week

WibuKey64.sys kernel-mode driver in Wibu-Systems WibuKey up to version 6.70 for Windows allows a local, low-privileged attacker to trigger memory boundary violations by supplying out-of-scope pointer values, with outcomes ranging from denial of service (BSOD) to full SYSTEM-level privilege escalation via kernel code execution. The CVSS Scope:Changed metric reflects the critical boundary crossing from user-space into the driver's SYSTEM-privileged kernel context, meaning successful exploitation yields complete machine control from an unprivileged account. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and WibuKey has not been listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the low attack complexity makes this a high-value local privilege escalation primitive for post-compromise chains.

Privilege Escalation RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Microsoft +2
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-81579 Aug 27, 07:42 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in WibuKey for Windows before 6.71 allows any low-privileged local user to gain full SYSTEM-level control by exploiting a write-what-where primitive in the WibuKey2_64.sys kernel driver. The root cause is an untrusted pointer dereference (CWE-123) in the 64-bit kernel driver, meaning attacker-controlled data is used directly as a kernel-space pointer, enabling arbitrary writes into kernel memory - a classic and highly reliable LPE primitive. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft Wibukey Wibu Systems Ag
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-81572 Aug 27, 07:06 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime allows a low-privileged local attacker to delete arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges via an NTFS junction attack, potentially cascading to full system compromise. The cmu.exe utility creates predictable temporary files under C:\CM-Stick without validating NTFS reparse points before performing file operations; because the CodeMeter Runtime service runs as SYSTEM, any redirected file operation executes at the highest privilege level. A detailed public research writeup is available from shelltrail.com, substantially lowering the exploitation barrier; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Codemeter Runtime Wibu Systems Ag
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-59354 Aug 27, 06:33 HIGH This Week

Insufficient input validation in Spring Security's OAuth2 Authorization Server module (versions 7.0.0-7.0.4) allows an attacker holding a valid Initial Access Token to register a malicious OAuth2 client with crafted metadata fields via the Dynamic Client Registration endpoint. Depending on server configuration and how the metadata is subsequently rendered or fetched, the impact spans Stored XSS (targeting administrator sessions), Privilege Escalation (through insufficiently constrained scopes or grant types), or SSRF against internal infrastructure. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, but the SSVC framework rates the technical impact as total, warranting priority remediation for any deployment with Dynamic Client Registration explicitly enabled.

XSS Privilege Escalation Java SSRF Spring Security Oauth2 Authorization Server Module
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-13415 Aug 27, 06:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the CMP WordPress plugin before 4.1.18 allows Editor-role users to overwrite arbitrary WordPress options via an unguarded AJAX settings-import action, ultimately achieving full Administrator access. The flaw is contingent on an administrator having explicitly granted Editor-role users access to CMP's admin-bar controls - a non-default configuration - making real-world exposure narrower than the CVSS 7.2 score implies. No active exploitation is confirmed (absent from CISA KEV), and the EPSS score of 0.13% at the 3rd percentile corroborates the SSVC assessment of exploitation status 'none'; however, SSVC rates technical impact as 'total' given that successful exploitation yields unrestricted site control.

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD WPScan
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-37071 Aug 27, 00:00 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in Veno File Manager 4.4.9 lets an authenticated user holding only the 'rename' permission take over the super administrator account. By sending a crafted POST request to the renameFile endpoint, the attacker renames the application configuration file, which forces the app to rebuild its configuration and reset super-admin credentials to default values. Publicly available exploit code exists (jfs-jfs GitHub repo); this is not in CISA KEV and EPSS is low (0.16%), indicating no observed mass exploitation yet.

Privilege Escalation
NVD VulDB GitHub
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-36102 Aug 27, 00:00 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Bluewave Labs Checkmate <=3.3.0 allows authenticated administrators to self-elevate to the superadmin role by supplying an arbitrary role value via the role parameter in the POST /api/v1/invite API endpoint, handled by inviteController.js. The flaw stems from improper privilege management (CWE-269): the invite handler trusts the caller-supplied role field without enforcing that admins cannot grant themselves or others a higher tier than their own. A researcher's write-up and code sample are publicly referenced via GitHub Gist and an Outline blog post, indicating at minimum a working proof of concept exists. No active exploitation has been confirmed and EPSS sits at 0.22% (12th percentile), consistent with a niche, authenticated-only attack surface.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-65956 Aug 26, 23:17 CRITICAL Act Now

Missing authentication on KubePi's SSO configuration endpoints (versions up to and including 1.6.15) lets unauthorized or low-privileged users read, create, and modify the global SSO/OIDC/SAML authentication configuration because those management routes share the public routing boundary with the SSO login/callback endpoints. An attacker can inspect or tamper with authentication settings - potentially leading to account takeover or privilege escalation - abuse the SSO connectivity-test as an SSRF primitive, and harvest authentication-related fields leaked by the user-list API. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue is fixed in KubePi 2.0.0.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Kubernetes SSRF
NVD VulDB GitHub
CVSS 4.0
10.0
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-80560 Aug 26, 14:37 HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel's OpenRISC signal return path allows any unprivileged local user to disable the Data MMU and gain arbitrary physical memory read/write access. The flaw exists in restore_sigcontext() on the OpenRISC (or1k) architecture, which fails to filter privileged Supervision Register (SR) bits copied from a user-controlled signal frame on sigreturn. Patched stable releases are available across all maintained kernel branches (5.10 through 7.2); no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though a verification proof-of-concept is documented in the fix description.

Privilege Escalation Linux Red Hat Suse
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-54523 Aug 26, 14:20 Go CRITICAL POC PATCH GHSA Act Now

Cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno 1.18.0-1.18.1 lets any tenant who can create a NamespacedMutatingPolicy in their own namespace force the cluster-privileged admission controller to generate resources (ConfigMaps, Secrets, NetworkPolicies, RoleBindings) in arbitrary namespaces, including kube-system. The nmpol CEL compiler unintentionally exposes the generator library to matchConditions, and neither the mpol validator nor GenerateResources enforces namespace scope on the generator.apply() target. A working proof-of-concept is published in the vendor advisory (GHSA-79gf-7frw-68m9); there is no KEV listing or evidence of active exploitation, and the issue is fixed in 1.18.2.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Red Hat Kyverno Suse
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
9.6
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-77545 Aug 26, 10:13 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in Ubiquiti UniFi OS affects a broad range of gateway, NVR, storage, and Cloud Key appliances running the UniFi OS platform, where leftover Active Debug Code (CWE-489) lets an authenticated low-privilege actor with network access elevate their privileges on the device. The flaw is vendor-reported via Ubiquiti Security Advisory Bulletin 067 and carries a 9.0 CVSS driven by a security-scope change and full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the wide device footprint makes it a notable patch priority.

Privilege Escalation Ubiquiti Network Attached Storage Unifi Os Server Express 7 +11
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.0
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-75977 Aug 26, 07:42 HIGH This Week

Cookie forgery in the Mang Board WP WordPress plugin (≤2.3.7) enables any subscriber-level account holder to forge administrator authentication cookies and change the administrator password, resulting in complete WordPress site takeover. The flaw originates in `mbw_get_hash_key()`, which generates HMAC material from the currently logged-in user's identity rather than the username embedded in the cookie under validation, while `mbw_validate_auth_cookie()` performs insufficient verification - allowing the forged cookie to pass as legitimate. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing is present, but the CVSS 8.8 score accurately reflects the low privilege bar required and full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Mang Board Wp Kitae Park
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.6%
CVE-2026-58094 Aug 26, 05:39 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's POSIX shared memory subsystem allows an unprivileged local user to gain root-level access by exploiting a race condition in the FIOSSHMLPGCNF ioctl handler. The kernel's largepage shared memory page-size configuration check is performed without holding the rangelock, enabling two concurrent callers to each observe an unconfigured object and write conflicting page sizes, corrupting kernel object state in an exploitable way. No public exploit code or CISA KEV entry has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.13% (3rd percentile), indicating low current exploitation probability, though local privilege escalation primitives in OS kernels are high-value targets for post-compromise and container-escape scenarios.

Privilege Escalation Freebsd
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-58093 Aug 26, 05:33 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's tty subsystem allows a local unprivileged user to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the TIOCSCTTY ioctl handler. The handler fails to revalidate terminal state after a lock-drop sequence, enabling a concurrently destroyed terminal to be incorrectly linked to the attacker's session. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but vendor-confirmed patches exist for all affected release lines (15.0-RELEASE, 15.1-RELEASE, and 14.4-RELEASE).

Privilege Escalation Race Condition Freebsd
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-58092 Aug 26, 04:46 HIGH This Week

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Privilege Escalation Freebsd
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.1
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-58091 Aug 26, 04:38 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's kernel audio subsystem allows an unprivileged local user on systems with multiple audio devices to exploit a use-after-free in the sync group ioctl locking path to achieve full kernel compromise. The race condition arises when the ioctl releases the sync group list lock to sleep during a blocking lock attempt, and a concurrent operation frees the sync group structure before the sleeping thread reawakens and dereferences it. Affected releases include FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE prior to p9, 15.0-RELEASE prior to p13, and 15.1-RELEASE prior to p3; no active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and EPSS sits at 0.16% (6th percentile), reflecting low current threat activity.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption Freebsd
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-58090 Aug 26, 04:35 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD 15.x unix socket implementation allows an unprivileged local user to achieve full system compromise via a use-after-free in the SOCK_STREAM receive path. Control messages are not fully detached from the socket buffer before error-path code frees the associated mbufs, leaving dangling references exploitable by a low-privileged attacker. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity (AC:L) and confirmed patch availability from the FreeBSD project make this a clear and immediate patching priority for affected deployments.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption Freebsd
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-79090 Aug 25, 20:10 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege-management weakness in Google Chrome's Actor component (versions prior to 152.0.7977.65) lets a remote attacker who successfully socially-engineers a user into loading a crafted HTML page bypass system access restrictions. Chromium rates the underlying severity as Low, and no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS is 0.21% (11th percentile). Note a sharp signal conflict: the NVD-style CVSS base score is 9.8 (critical) while the vendor's own severity rating is Low and the description requires user interaction.

Privilege Escalation Google Suse
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-79226 Aug 25, 20:10 HIGH PATCH This Week

Improper privilege management in Chrome's Regional Capabilities component allows remote attackers to bypass system access restrictions by delivering a crafted Chrome extension through social engineering. Affected versions are all Chrome releases prior to 152.0.7977.65 across desktop platforms. Despite a CVSS base score of 8.8, EPSS exploitation probability is very low at 0.21% (11th percentile), no active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Google Suse
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-78999 Aug 25, 20:10 HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape via improper privilege management in Chrome's Navigation component allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the Chrome sandbox and execute arbitrary code at OS level. Affected versions are all Chrome releases prior to 152.0.7977.65 across desktop platforms. The attack chain is multi-stage - renderer compromise must precede the sandbox escape - and social engineering is required, but the resulting impact is full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise outside the sandbox. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis; EPSS exploitation probability is low at 0.40% (33rd percentile).

Privilege Escalation RCE Google Suse
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
8.3
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-75971 Aug 25, 11:27 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in ShopEngine (all versions up to and including 4.9.4) allows Shop Manager-level authenticated users to achieve full WordPress site takeover by injecting arbitrary core options through a malicious WXR import file. The plugin's `rum_importer()` function is hooked to the WordPress core `import_start` action without any plugin-owned capability check or allowlist filtering, meaning attacker-controlled `<wp_option>` pairs from a crafted import file flow directly into `update_option()` - enabling manipulation of `users_can_register` and `default_role` to open administrator self-registration. No CISA KEV listing or EPSS score was present in the provided data; exploitation requires an existing Shop Manager account and WooCommerce's grant of the `import` capability to that role, but once those conditions are met the path to full site compromise is straightforward and documented.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Shopengine Elementor Woocommerce Builder Addon All In One Woocommerce Solution With Ecommerce Templates Woo Widgets Roxnor
NVD
CVSS 3.1
7.2
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-78570 Aug 25, 09:27 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Total Donations WordPress plugin (all versions through 2.0.5) lets unauthenticated attackers promote themselves to full administrator, per Wordfence and Patchstack advisories. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) rates it Critical 9.8 with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code is identified at the time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the unauthenticated network-reachable admin-takeover primitive makes it high priority.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Total Donations Klbtheme
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-12878 Aug 25, 09:02 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Codefresh CI/CD platform allows authenticated platform users to elevate their account to Administrator level by invoking a specific API endpoint, per Codefresh security advisory SA2026-01. All versions covered by CPE cpe:2.3:a:octopus_deploy:codefresh are listed as affected with no minimum version floor specified. A successful attacker gains unrestricted administrative control of the platform - including access to all pipelines, stored secrets, integrations, and organizational settings. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing is not confirmed.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Octopus Deploy Codefresh
NVD VulDB
CVSS 4.0
8.6
EPSS
0.4%
CVE-2026-69665 Aug 25, 06:27 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation to SYSTEM in SKYSEA Client View and SKYMEC IT Manager (Sky Co., Ltd.) affects any Windows host where these IT management agents are installed. The root cause is CWE-276 - incorrect default permissions set on installation artifacts - allowing any authenticated local Windows user to plant or replace code that a SYSTEM-level service component subsequently executes. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing are confirmed at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 8.5 and zero attack complexity barriers make this a credible priority for organizations running these products in multi-user or shared-workstation environments.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft Skysea Client View Skymec It Manager +1
NVD
CVSS 4.0
8.5
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-78477 Aug 25, 05:31 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Jawn WordPress theme (by MvpThemes) affects all versions through 1.4.2, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to promote themselves to a full administrator account. The flaw was disclosed by Wordfence and independently catalogued by Patchstack, and its CVSS 9.8 rating reflects unauthenticated, network-reachable takeover of the WordPress site. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jawn Wordpress Theme Mvpthemes
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-19892 Aug 25, 03:27 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation via account takeover in InfusedWoo Pro (all versions up to and including 5.1.17) allows any authenticated subscriber-level user to hijack arbitrary WordPress accounts, including site administrators, by exploiting a missing capability check in the `ajax_iwar_preview_email()` AJAX function. The function incorrectly relies on `is_admin()` - a WordPress conditional that tests for admin-area request context rather than the requesting user's role - permitting low-privilege users to generate valid password reset links for any email address on the site. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the trivial exploitation path (subscriber-level access, no user interaction, no special configuration) makes this a high-priority remediation target for any site running the affected plugin.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Infusedwoo Pro Infused Addons
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-78267 Aug 24, 21:31 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the TranslatePress multilingual plugin for WordPress (all versions up to and including 3.3.2) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges within the site, per a Patchstack advisory. The flaw is classified as incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266) and carries a CVSS 9.8, implying an attacker can escalate to a high-impact role without authentication or user interaction. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Translatepress Cozmoslabs
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-32561 Aug 24, 21:31 HIGH This Week

Subscriber-level privilege escalation in the Booking Hub WordPress plugin (versions ≤ 1.3.0) allows authenticated users with only subscriber-level access to elevate their privileges to administrator-equivalent roles. The CVSS 8.8 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms network-accessible exploitation with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact once a low-privilege account is obtained. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a realistic priority for any WordPress site running the affected plugin with user registration enabled.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Booking Hub Liquidthemes
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-78553 Aug 24, 19:28 HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure file creation in RansomLook (≤ 2.0.0) exposes the Flask session-signing secret to any local OS user with read access to the application home directory, enabling complete authentication bypass. The secret key governs Flask session cookie signing and the legacy API-key derivation function; possession of it allows an attacker to forge valid session cookies and impersonate any user, including administrators. In LDAP-configured deployments, exploitation is especially direct because the session user loader accepts arbitrary usernames without verifying their existence against any user store. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Python Ransomlook
NVD GitHub
CVSS 4.0
7.0
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-12556 Aug 24, 16:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

HP Easy Start for macOS prior to version 2.16.7.260722 is affected by privilege escalation vulnerabilities rooted in CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information), allowing an authenticated low-privilege attacker with network positioning to intercept sensitive data and gain elevated access on the affected macOS system. The CVSS 4.0 score of 7.7 reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though the attack prerequisite modifier (AT:P) indicates specific conditions must be satisfied before exploitation succeeds. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; HP has released a patched version addressing these issues.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.7
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-12555 Aug 24, 16:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in HP Easy Start for macOS (versions prior to 2.16.7.260722) allows low-privileged local users to gain elevated system access through insecure temporary file handling, classified under CWE-379. HP has released version 2.16.7.260722 to address these vulnerabilities, as detailed in advisory HPSBPI04124. No public exploit code exists and no CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis, reducing immediate urgency despite a vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 score of 7.7.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.7
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-12554 Aug 24, 16:16 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in HP Easy Start for macOS, versions prior to 2.16.7.260722, allow a local low-privileged user to gain elevated system access. Classified under CWE-1104 (Use of Unmaintained Third-Party Components), the root cause likely involves outdated bundled libraries within the printer setup utility. HP has released version 2.16.7.260722 as the remediation; no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
CVSS 4.0
8.5
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-59567 Aug 24, 13:41 HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Zscaler Client Connector enables a standard (non-administrative) local user to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via multiple improper privilege handling flaws (CWE-280). The scope change captured in the CVSS vector (S:C) reflects that exploitation breaks the security boundary of the Client Connector's privileged agent process, extending impact beyond the attacker's initial user context to full High-rated confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation RCE Client Connector Zscaler
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.1%
CVE-2026-66648 Aug 24, 11:54 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Jawn WordPress theme (versions ≤ 1.4.2, by mvpthemes) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to elevate their privileges within a WordPress site, per a Patchstack advisory. The flaw is rooted in incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266) and carries a CVSS 9.8, implying an attacker can reach administrator-level control without credentials or user interaction. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jawn Wordpress Theme Mvpthemes
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-32558 Aug 24, 11:54 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the Affiliate Pro - Affiliate Program for WooCommerce & WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 8.9.1) lets remote, unauthenticated attackers improperly acquire elevated privileges on affected WordPress sites. Reported by Patchstack and tracked as EUVD-2026-64804, the flaw carries a critical CVSS 9.8 with a fully network-exploitable vector and no user interaction. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity and unauthenticated nature make it a high-priority patching target.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Affiliate Pro Affiliate Program For Woocommerce Wordpress Redefiningtheweb
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-28165 Aug 24, 11:54 CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the Digits WordPress plugin (versions 9.2 and earlier by UnitedOver, LLC) allows remote attackers to elevate their privileges without any authentication or user interaction, per Patchstack's disclosure. Digits is an OTP/phone-based login and registration plugin, so a flaw in its privilege-handling logic can let an outsider gain elevated account access. CVSS is rated 9.8 (critical); there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Digits Wordpress Plugin
NVD
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.3%
CVE-2026-30512 Aug 24, 00:00 HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Entevo HMI V2 R5 P0 M4 enables a low-privileged local user to break out of Kiosk Mode and gain administrative command execution on Windows. The escape path exploits the application's built-in PDF manual viewer: opening the manual triggers an external PDF reader, whose Print dialog exposes Windows Explorer shell access, ultimately permitting arbitrary command execution as an administrator. A proof-of-concept demonstration is publicly available via GitHub gist; EPSS is low at 0.17% and CISA SSVC indicates no confirmed active exploitation, though the public POC meaningfully lowers the skill bar for any attacker with local session access.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft N A
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
7.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-78155 Aug 23, 09:26 CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the OnGres StackGres operator lets a low-privilege, database-owning tenant elevate to administrator privileges, breaking the multi-tenant isolation model of this Kubernetes-based PostgreSQL platform. The CVSS 9.9 rating with a scope change (S:C) reflects that an authenticated tenant confined to their own database can cross a trust boundary to gain full administrative control. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the only public reference is a GitLab work item tracking the flaw.

Privilege Escalation Stackgres
NVD VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.9
EPSS
0.5%
CVE-2026-13598 Aug 23, 06:16 CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation to administrator in the RestrictMate WordPress plugin before 1.3.0 lets any remote visitor abuse the account-registration flow, which fails to validate the user role submitted during signup, to create a brand-new administrator account and receive a logged-in admin session - resulting in full site takeover. Rated CVSS 9.8 with a fully remote, no-interaction, no-privilege vector; a vendor patch (1.3.0) exists and CISA's SSVC framework flags it as automatable with total technical impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV, and EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile).

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD WPScan VulDB
CVSS 3.1
9.8
EPSS
0.2%
CVE-2026-16149 Aug 23, 00:16 HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Security Hardener WordPress plugin (all versions up to and including 2.4.4) allows any authenticated Subscriber-level user to create new Administrator accounts or reset existing Administrator passwords by sending crafted REST API requests. The plugin's user-enumeration blocking feature inadvertently replaces WordPress Core's granular capability checks on the /wp/v2/users REST endpoints with a bare is_user_logged_in() check, completely stripping create_users, edit_users, and delete_users enforcement. Because block_user_enum is enabled by default, this authorization bypass is active on every site immediately after plugin installation with no additional configuration required; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.6%
CVE-2026-19883 Aug 22, 02:26 HIGH POC This Week

Privilege escalation in WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher (all versions through 2.8.24) allows any authenticated WordPress subscriber to gain full administrative access by invoking the unprotected wpematico_import_settings function. The missing capability check permits arbitrary WordPress site options to be overwritten, enabling attackers to enable user registration and set the default registration role to administrator - a two-stage takeover requiring only a valid subscriber account. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack chain is low-complexity and directly actionable by any authenticated user.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin Wpematico Rss Feed Fetcher Etruel
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
8.8
EPSS
0.4%
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.2
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in Craft CMS before 5.10.11 lets remote attackers gain administrator rights by registering a new account using the email address of a previously deactivated admin, because the admin flag is not validated and persists across registration. Exploitation requires public user registration to be enabled and email verification to be disabled. Reported by VulnCheck with a vendor security advisory (GHSA-242m-9wq7-vhwq); no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Cms Craftcms
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation to administrator in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended WordPress plugin before 0.9.2.7 allows unauthenticated visitors to bypass role restrictions enforced on front-end user registration forms. The plugin fails to validate that a submitted role value matches those actually offered by the configured form, and its blocklist against privileged roles is incomplete, enabling a two-stage attack: register with an elevated role, then escalate that account to full site administrator. A publicly available exploit exists per WPScan disclosure, raising the urgency of patching; no public KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Advanced Custom Fields +1
NVD WPScan VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the JetBackup WordPress plugin before 3.1.23.5 allows a subscriber-level user to gain full administrator access by exploiting the plugin's failure to validate account roles during a site restore or migration. When the site owner performs a legitimate backup restore or migration, JetBackup blindly preserves and promotes accounts in the backup set without re-verifying their roles or capabilities, silently elevating an attacker's low-privilege account to administrator. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists per WPScan, though no confirmed mass exploitation (CISA KEV) is on record; the CVSS 7.1 score (AC:H/UI:R) reflects real-world complexity imposed by the site-owner trigger.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jetbackup +1
NVD WPScan
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the WordPress plugin Booking for Appointments and Events Calendar - Amelia (Premium) versions 8.0 through 9.6.2 lets remote attackers gain full administrator control of a site. By abusing insufficient validation of the 'type' parameter in the customer update endpoint (with 'externalId' set to 0), an attacker elevates a customer to the manager role, then creates a provider entity linked to an existing administrator and overwrites that administrator's password. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 9.8 rating and unauthenticated network reachability make this a high-priority patch for affected sites.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Booking For Appointments And Events Calendar Amelia +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH This Week

Authentication bypass in HPE AOS-CX switch operating system allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker, under high-complexity conditions, to circumvent authentication controls and achieve both integrity compromise and sensitive information exposure. The scope change in the CVSS vector (S:C) indicates successful exploitation can extend impact beyond the directly targeted switch - relevant in networked environments where a compromised switch becomes a pivot point. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Aos Cx Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows an attacker holding a low-privileged local account to execute arbitrary code with root privileges, achieving complete host compromise. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L) confirms exploitation is confined to the local system and requires high attack complexity - consistent with a race condition or SUID-binary class of flaw. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation RCE Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API permits an authenticated low-privilege operator to invoke API operations that should require higher authorization, enabling unauthorized modification of system settings. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms the exploit path is network-accessible with no user interaction required beyond holding a valid operator-role credential. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, though this CVE belongs to a broader cluster of HPE Fabric Composer vulnerabilities reported under the same advisory.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's web-based management interface allows authenticated operator-level users to execute state-changing actions beyond their authorized scope. The CVSS vector (PR:L/I:H) confirms exploitation requires low-privilege credentials but yields high-integrity impact - unauthorized modification of platform state that should be gated to higher-privilege roles. No active exploitation or public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Arbitrary file write via the HPE Networking Fabric Composer API enables an authenticated administrative user to escalate privileges to root on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability allows admin-level API users to write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary filesystem paths, which can then be leveraged to execute arbitrary OS commands as root. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.6
HIGH This Week

Broken access control in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API allows authenticated low-privilege operator users to read data beyond their authorized scope, potentially enabling lateral movement or privilege escalation within the management plane. The vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity once a valid operator credential is obtained, as reflected by the CVSS 7.6 score (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L). No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Information Disclosure Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows an attacker with low-level local access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the host operating system. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms exploitation requires only a local foothold with minimal privileges - no user interaction or elevated rights needed beyond initial system access. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; however, HPE has published a security bulletin acknowledging the issue.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation via an unauthenticated API endpoint in HPE Networking Fabric Composer allows a remote attacker to obtain administrative privileges and achieve complete compromise of the Fabric Composer host. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N) confirms network-accessible, unauthenticated exploitation, though AC:H indicates a non-trivial exploitation condition such as a race, specific request sequence, or transient configuration state. No active exploitation is confirmed and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hpe
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the HPE Networking Fabric Composer API allows authenticated low-privilege operator users to invoke state-changing API operations beyond their authorized scope, including modifications to configurations of network systems managed by the platform. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/I:H) confirms the flaw is remotely exploitable with no complexity or interaction requirements, and that the integrity impact extends beyond Fabric Composer itself to the downstream network infrastructure it manages. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis, but the low exploitation barrier - a valid low-privilege credential - makes this a meaningful insider and credential-theft escalation risk.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Easybyte Software's Konga before 2.1.0 allows any authenticated local Windows user to execute arbitrary code at the privilege level of the account running Konga by planting attacker-controlled OpenSSL configuration or library files in a hardcoded filesystem path that is absent from default installations and resides in a location writable by all authenticated users. The root cause is CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element): Konga loads OpenSSL from a fixed, predictable path without verifying the integrity or provenance of files found there, enabling a classic library-planting attack. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis; a vendor patch is available in version 2.1.0.

Privilege Escalation RCE OpenSSL +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer's API allows an authenticated low-privilege operator user to elevate permissions to administrative level, resulting in complete system compromise. The flaw is exploitable over the network without user interaction, making it accessible to any attacker holding a valid operator account. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a credible internal-threat vector in any environment where operator credentials are broadly issued or have been exposed.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Fabric Composer +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Kibana allows an authenticated user holding workflow edit permissions to cause scheduled workflow executions to run under the privileges of a higher-privileged user, granting unauthorized read and write access to data outside their authorization scope. The flaw (CWE-863, Incorrect Authorization) stems from Kibana's workflow scheduling subsystem failing to enforce authorization boundaries when executing scheduled jobs - a pattern classified under CAPEC-180. No public exploit exists at time of analysis, but the CVSS 8.3 (High) score with a network-accessible, low-privilege attack vector reflects genuine impact for any multi-user Kibana deployment. Elastic's advisory ESA-2026-61 references Kibana 9.4.3 as the fix release.

Privilege Escalation Elastic Kibana
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Rockwell Automation's Redundancy Module Configuration Tool (RMConfigTool.exe) enables a local standard user to execute arbitrary code with Administrator or SYSTEM privileges via DLL search order hijacking. The tool searches system PATH directories for required DLLs, and one or more of those directories have incorrect default permissions allowing write access by non-privileged accounts; if a malicious DLL is planted there before an administrator runs the tool, it loads into the elevated process. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, though the underlying technique is well-understood and commonly leveraged in post-exploitation privilege escalation chains.

Privilege Escalation Redundancy Module Configuration Tool Rockwell Automation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

DLL hijacking in Rockwell Automation's Redundancy Module Configuration Tool (RM3ConfigTool.exe) allows a local low-privileged attacker to escalate to Administrator or SYSTEM privileges by planting a malicious DLL in a writable system PATH directory before an administrator launches the utility. The root cause is CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions): the installer grants standard users write access to one or more directories that RM3ConfigTool.exe searches at runtime for a required DLL, enabling the classic DLL planting technique. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Redundancy Module Configuration Tool Rockwell Automation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk® Activation Manager exposes authenticated local Windows users to full SYSTEM-level access by exploiting visible console windows spawned by the installer's custom actions during installation or repair operations. Any low-privileged user present on the machine during an install or repair sequence can interact with these unprotected, SYSTEM-privileged console windows to launch an unrestricted command shell. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack technique - console window hijacking during elevated installer operations - is a well-documented Windows privilege escalation class requiring minimal skill once the precondition is met.

Privilege Escalation Factorytalk Activation Manager Rockwell Automation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Firefox's WebDriver BiDi component allows network-based attackers, with user interaction, to achieve full compromise of the browser process across confidentiality, integrity, and availability dimensions. All Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 155 are affected, as confirmed by vendor advisory mfsa2026-82 and the wildcard CPE cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and SSVC confirms no observed exploitation, though CISA rates the technical impact as total.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Use-after-free in Firefox's WebGPU graphics component allows privilege escalation when a victim visits a specially crafted webpage. Affecting all Firefox versions prior to 155 and ESR prior to 153.2, a remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger memory corruption by delivering malicious WebGPU content, achieving full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (CVSS 8.8). No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; SSVC confirms exploitation status as none and the attack is not automatable due to required user interaction.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Mozilla Firefox for Android (versions prior to 155) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to achieve full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability by exploiting improper access control (CWE-284) when a user interacts with attacker-controlled content. Mozilla confirmed the fix in Firefox 155, documented under MFSA2026-82. No public exploit code exists and CISA has not added this to KEV, though SSVC rates the technical impact as 'total', underscoring the severity if successfully triggered.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Mozilla Firefox's Graphics component via an invalid pointer (CWE-763) exposes users running all Firefox versions prior to 155 and ESR branches prior to 115.40, 140.15, and 153.2 to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS 8.8 network-vector score with no required privileges but mandatory user interaction (UI:R) places this squarely in the drive-by exploitation category - a victim visiting a crafted webpage is sufficient to trigger the flaw. No active exploitation is confirmed at time of analysis (SSVC exploitation: none, no KEV listing), but the total technical impact rating and the broad Firefox install base make this a high-priority patching target.

Privilege Escalation Mozilla
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Dell PowerStore storage appliances allows an authenticated low-privilege user to invoke administrator-only management operations via the network, resulting in full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise of the storage system. The flaw stems from incorrect authorization checks (CWE-863), where the system fails to enforce proper privilege boundaries on API or management interface operations. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing, but the low attack complexity and high-impact CVSS 8.8 rating make this a credible threat in multi-tenant or shared-access storage environments.

Privilege Escalation Dell Powerstore 500T +11
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated account takeover in the Nokri - Job Board WordPress theme (versions through 1.6.6) lets remote attackers reset any user's password, including administrators. The flaw stems from the nokri_reset_password() function accepting an empty reset token that matches the empty or unset sb_password_forget_token user meta value, so no valid token is ever needed. Reported by Wordfence and rated CVSS 9.8; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing is identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Nokri Job Board Wordpress Theme +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation to root in Plesk for Linux (18.0.34 up to 18.0.79.9 / 18.0.80.5) lets a customer- or reseller-level account with shell access run OS command injection (CWE-78) to take over the entire hosting server. Any tenant permitted to use - or to toggle on - their own shell access can break out of their restricted account and reach the root identity, collapsing the isolation between shared-hosting customers and the host. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the vendor rates it critical (CVSS 9.0) and has shipped fixed builds.

Privilege Escalation Command Injection Plesk +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in HP ImageDiags prior to version 5.0.0.36 enables a local low-privileged attacker - contingent on active interaction by a higher-privileged user - to gain elevated system privileges through insufficient access controls on temporary file resources (CWE-379). All versions of HP ImageDiags before 5.0.0.36 are affected per HP security bulletin HPSBGN04143. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Privilege Escalation HP Hp Imagediags +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Subscriber-level privilege escalation in Fluent Forms Pro Add On Pack (versions <= 6.2.12) allows authenticated users with minimal access to gain significantly elevated permissions within a WordPress installation. Reported by Patchstack against the wp_manage_ninja plugin, the flaw stems from incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266), meaning subscriber-role accounts can trigger functionality reserved for higher-privileged roles such as administrators. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, though the network-accessible attack vector and high CVSS impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability make this a meaningful risk for any WordPress site accepting subscriber registrations.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in MCPHub prior to version 1.0.29 allows any authenticated low-privilege user to modify system-wide configuration via the PUT /api/system-config endpoint. The handler updateSystemConfig never validates req.user.isAdmin, meaning the app-wide authentication middleware - which only confirms a valid session exists - is the sole barrier, granting any account holder effective administrative control over routing rules and server integrations. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack is trivially reproducible given network access and any valid credential.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in ieungSoft Ultra RAMDisk Pro 1.82 allows a low-privileged local user to gain SYSTEM or kernel-level control via improper privilege management in the URDSCSI.sys kernel driver (CWE-266). The vendor did not respond to coordinated disclosure, leaving no official patch; a public proof-of-concept exploit exists, confirmed by the CVSS 4.0 E:P metric and a detailed write-up. No active exploitation has been confirmed in CISA KEV, but the low exploitation barrier (low-privilege local access, no interaction, public PoC) makes this a credible post-compromise escalation tool.

Privilege Escalation
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Cross-workspace privilege escalation in ToolJet Database before v3.16.44 enables any authenticated user to read database tables belonging to arbitrary workspaces by supplying victim workspace identifiers in the join_tables endpoint request path. The endpoint grants JOIN_TABLES capability to all authenticated users without validating role membership or workspace affiliation, breaking ToolJet's multi-tenant isolation entirely. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 8.2 reflects high confidentiality impact across both the vulnerable and subsequent systems in shared deployments.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Tooljet
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in the @hulumi/policies npm package before 1.3.2 lets attackers bypass the administrator-policy guardrail (CIS 1.16) by crafting admin-equivalent inline or attached IAM policy shapes that the validator failed to fully inspect. Any environment relying on this library to detect over-privileged IAM policies could silently pass admin-equivalent access as compliant. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Policies Hulumi
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in hulumi before v1.3.2 lets an actor holding the documented IAM principal abuse the weekly integration IAM policy to perform role lifecycle operations on af-e2e-* roles that lack sufficient permission-boundary restrictions. Because the policy allows role creation without a constraining boundary, the actor can mint persistent, higher-privilege roles inside the sandbox AWS account, converting scoped test access into durable elevated access. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Hulumi Kerberosmansour
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL Act Now

Local privilege escalation in Colorful iGameCenter 2.0.0.81 stems from its bundled WinRing0x64.sys driver, whose sub_11504 IOCTL handler exposes arbitrary physical-memory access via attacker-controlled PhysicalAddress/AlignNumer/AlignSize arguments. A low-privileged local user can abuse this IOCTL Dispatch path to read and write kernel-visible physical memory and escalate to SYSTEM. Publicly available exploit code exists for the underlying WinRing0 driver class, but this specific CVE is not listed in CISA KEV and EPSS is unavailable; no active exploitation is confirmed.

Privilege Escalation Igamecenter
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

Vertical privilege escalation in XueZhiSi XZS Open Source Exam System (versions <= 3.9.0) allows an authenticated teacher account (role=2) to permanently delete administrator accounts (role=3) via the POST /api/teacher/user/delete/{id} REST endpoint. The three-step delete sequence - getUserById(id), setDeleted(true), updateByIdFilter() - executes without any role-based authorization check on the target resource, enabling a lower-privileged user to destroy privileged accounts irreversibly. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists; EPSS sits at 0.15%, reflecting minimal observed activity at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in SiYuan's Windows NSIS installer affects versions 2.0.14 through 3.8.0, allowing a local attacker with write access to a directory to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges by planting a malicious binary that the NSIS installer resolves ahead of System32 during an all-users installation. The root cause is electron-builder's preInit hook invoking system utilities such as TASKKILL by short name via nsExec::Exec, causing the installer's launch directory to take search-path precedence over System32 before the license page is even displayed. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, though the binary-planting technique is well-documented in Windows installer security research.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft Siyuan +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation to Administrator in the Addify Custom User Registration Fields for WooCommerce plugin (versions ≤ 2.2.3) lets unauthenticated attackers gain admin rights by supplying an arbitrary role slug during WooCommerce checkout. The plugin trusts an attacker-controlled afreg_select_user_role value from the unauthenticated Store API /wc/store/v1/checkout request and passes it straight to WP_User::add_role() without validating it against the admin-configured allowed role list. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and exploitation requires the plugin's 'User Role Selection' feature to be enabled.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Custom User Registration Fields For Woocommerce +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Account takeover in the Uix UserCenter WordPress plugin (all versions through 1.0.3) lets unauthenticated attackers seize any account, including administrators. The plugin's profile-update action never checks that the targeted account belongs to the requester and authorizes the action with a token signed by a hardcoded key that is identical on every installation, so an attacker can forge a valid token for any user and overwrite that user's email and password. Rated CVSS 9.8 with publicly available exploit code (WPScan), though EPSS is low at 0.14%.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Uix Usercenter +1
NVD WPScan VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Privilege escalation to full site takeover affects the MemberHero WordPress plugin through version 6.9, where the frontend registration flow fails to restrict which account fields a visitor may set, letting unauthenticated attackers self-register with an arbitrary role - including Administrator. Version 6.9 was advertised as the fix but the patch is incomplete, so current installs remain exploitable to gain admin access and hijack existing accounts, and no fully-fixed release exists at time of analysis. Publicly available exploit code exists (WPScan), though EPSS remains low at 0.15% (4th percentile).

WordPress Privilege Escalation Memberhero +1
NVD WPScan VulDB
Threat Model
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Authenticated command injection in IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.11.1 lets any logged-in flow user escalate to arbitrary OS command execution under the server process identity. By saving a flow containing a crafted 'type' field and triggering a build of a wrapper flow that references it, the attacker coerces the backend into evaluating attacker-controlled code, defeating the LANGFLOW_ALLOW_CUSTOM_COMPONENTS=false guardrail intended to block custom code execution. The vendor (IBM) reported it and has released a fix; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation IBM Code Injection +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in IBM AIX 7.2, 7.3 and IBM PowerVM VIOS 4.1 exploits a format string vulnerability (CWE-134) to allow a low-privileged local attacker to gain elevated - potentially root-level - privileges with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS sits at 0.10% (1st percentile), consistent with an SSVC exploitation status of 'none'. IBM has released a patch at the advisory linked below.

Privilege Escalation IBM Aix +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in SpringBlade 2.7.3 through 3.5.0 lets authenticated low-privilege users forge admin JWT tokens using a hardcoded signing key embedded in publicly distributed JARs, then POST to an unprotected internal Feign user-creation endpoint to register new system administrator accounts. The Spring Cloud Gateway authentication filter validates JWT structure but performs no role or caller-identity checks, making bypass trivial for anyone with initial account access. A public POC is available; vendor-released patch exists in v5.0.0; no CISA KEV listing confirmed at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Springblade
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 lets authenticated users holding the plugin's delegated management capability overwrite arbitrary WordPress site options, including those governing user roles, enabling full administrator takeover. The root cause is a missing capability check on the login settings save handler - the plugin fails to verify the caller's WordPress capabilities before persisting changes to the wp_options table. A public proof-of-concept exploit exists per WPScan; however, SSVC reports no active exploitation and the CVE is absent from CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation User Registration Membership +1
NVD WPScan
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation to administrator in the Ultimate Member WordPress plugin (versions 2.6.7 through 2.12.x) allows unauthenticated users registering via the plugin's own forms to self-assign any WordPress role, including administrator, by exploiting a logic failure in role validation. When the plugin cannot resolve the allowed roles for a given profile form, it falls back to validating the submitted role against the full site-wide role registry rather than the form's own allow-list - accepting any valid registered role. A publicly available exploit exists per WPScan, though SSVC assessment indicates no confirmed active exploitation campaigns at time of analysis. Vendor-released patch is available in version 2.13.0.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Ultimate Member +1
NVD WPScan
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

Improper access control in the ServiceNow AI Platform allows an unauthenticated user, under certain circumstances, to create or modify instance data beyond intended boundaries, resulting in privilege escalation. ServiceNow has patched hosted instances and supplied updates to partners and self-hosted customers; the vendor rates this maximum severity (CVSS 4.0 10.0) but reports no known exploitation. No public exploit identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Servicenow +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure default file permissions in the openssl_encrypt desktop GUI (jahlives/openssl_encrypt, all versions before 1.4.9) expose decrypted plaintext output files to any unprivileged local user on multi-user systems. Any co-resident local account can read sensitive plaintext written by the GUI without requiring elevated privileges or exploiting any authentication mechanism. No public exploit code has been identified and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; a vendor-confirmed patch is available at version 1.4.9.

Privilege Escalation Openssl Encrypt Jahlives
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in Flowintel's administrative user-edit API allows an organization administrator to modify full administrator accounts within their own organization, including resetting passwords, effectively enabling account takeover of a higher-privileged identity. Affected versions are 3.3.0 and above, as confirmed by upstream commit ffe64d1133b7d84909a69661bd5fee607e9ce757 which adds the missing role-hierarchy boundary check. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation Flowintel
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FluentCRM Pro (WordPress plugin, versions <= 3.1.12) allows authenticated users holding the Editor role to elevate their access level, yielding full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact against the WordPress installation. Reported by Patchstack and scored CVSS 7.2 with PR:H, the flaw is rooted in CWE-266 (Incorrect Privilege Assignment), meaning the plugin fails to correctly enforce role boundaries for Editors interacting with CRM functionality. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the ACPT (Pro) - Custom Post Types plugin for WordPress affects all versions up to and including 2.0.63, allowing remote attackers with no credentials to improperly gain elevated privileges (CWE-266). Rated CVSS 9.8, the flaw grants full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact, effectively enabling site takeover. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the unauthenticated network vector makes it a high-priority patching target.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

WibuKey64.sys kernel-mode driver in Wibu-Systems WibuKey up to version 6.70 for Windows allows a local, low-privileged attacker to trigger memory boundary violations by supplying out-of-scope pointer values, with outcomes ranging from denial of service (BSOD) to full SYSTEM-level privilege escalation via kernel code execution. The CVSS Scope:Changed metric reflects the critical boundary crossing from user-space into the driver's SYSTEM-privileged kernel context, meaning successful exploitation yields complete machine control from an unprivileged account. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and WibuKey has not been listed in the CISA KEV catalog, but the low attack complexity makes this a high-value local privilege escalation primitive for post-compromise chains.

Privilege Escalation RCE Buffer Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in WibuKey for Windows before 6.71 allows any low-privileged local user to gain full SYSTEM-level control by exploiting a write-what-where primitive in the WibuKey2_64.sys kernel driver. The root cause is an untrusted pointer dereference (CWE-123) in the 64-bit kernel driver, meaning attacker-controlled data is used directly as a kernel-space pointer, enabling arbitrary writes into kernel memory - a classic and highly reliable LPE primitive. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE does not appear in the CISA KEV catalog.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Wibu-Systems CodeMeter Runtime allows a low-privileged local attacker to delete arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges via an NTFS junction attack, potentially cascading to full system compromise. The cmu.exe utility creates predictable temporary files under C:\CM-Stick without validating NTFS reparse points before performing file operations; because the CodeMeter Runtime service runs as SYSTEM, any redirected file operation executes at the highest privilege level. A detailed public research writeup is available from shelltrail.com, substantially lowering the exploitation barrier; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Privilege Escalation Codemeter Runtime Wibu Systems Ag
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Insufficient input validation in Spring Security's OAuth2 Authorization Server module (versions 7.0.0-7.0.4) allows an attacker holding a valid Initial Access Token to register a malicious OAuth2 client with crafted metadata fields via the Dynamic Client Registration endpoint. Depending on server configuration and how the metadata is subsequently rendered or fetched, the impact spans Stored XSS (targeting administrator sessions), Privilege Escalation (through insufficiently constrained scopes or grant types), or SSRF against internal infrastructure. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, but the SSVC framework rates the technical impact as total, warranting priority remediation for any deployment with Dynamic Client Registration explicitly enabled.

XSS Privilege Escalation Java +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the CMP WordPress plugin before 4.1.18 allows Editor-role users to overwrite arbitrary WordPress options via an unguarded AJAX settings-import action, ultimately achieving full Administrator access. The flaw is contingent on an administrator having explicitly granted Editor-role users access to CMP's admin-bar controls - a non-default configuration - making real-world exposure narrower than the CVSS 7.2 score implies. No active exploitation is confirmed (absent from CISA KEV), and the EPSS score of 0.13% at the 3rd percentile corroborates the SSVC assessment of exploitation status 'none'; however, SSVC rates technical impact as 'total' given that successful exploitation yields unrestricted site control.

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD WPScan
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in Veno File Manager 4.4.9 lets an authenticated user holding only the 'rename' permission take over the super administrator account. By sending a crafted POST request to the renameFile endpoint, the attacker renames the application configuration file, which forces the app to rebuild its configuration and reset super-admin credentials to default values. Publicly available exploit code exists (jfs-jfs GitHub repo); this is not in CISA KEV and EPSS is low (0.16%), indicating no observed mass exploitation yet.

Privilege Escalation
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in Bluewave Labs Checkmate <=3.3.0 allows authenticated administrators to self-elevate to the superadmin role by supplying an arbitrary role value via the role parameter in the POST /api/v1/invite API endpoint, handled by inviteController.js. The flaw stems from improper privilege management (CWE-269): the invite handler trusts the caller-supplied role field without enforcing that admins cannot grant themselves or others a higher tier than their own. A researcher's write-up and code sample are publicly referenced via GitHub Gist and an Outline blog post, indicating at minimum a working proof of concept exists. No active exploitation has been confirmed and EPSS sits at 0.22% (12th percentile), consistent with a niche, authenticated-only attack surface.

Privilege Escalation
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

Missing authentication on KubePi's SSO configuration endpoints (versions up to and including 1.6.15) lets unauthorized or low-privileged users read, create, and modify the global SSO/OIDC/SAML authentication configuration because those management routes share the public routing boundary with the SSO login/callback endpoints. An attacker can inspect or tamper with authentication settings - potentially leading to account takeover or privilege escalation - abuse the SSO connectivity-test as an SSRF primitive, and harvest authentication-related fields leaked by the user-list API. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the issue is fixed in KubePi 2.0.0.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Kubernetes +1
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel's OpenRISC signal return path allows any unprivileged local user to disable the Data MMU and gain arbitrary physical memory read/write access. The flaw exists in restore_sigcontext() on the OpenRISC (or1k) architecture, which fails to filter privileged Supervision Register (SR) bits copied from a user-controlled signal frame on sigreturn. Patched stable releases are available across all maintained kernel branches (5.10 through 7.2); no public exploit identified at time of analysis, though a verification proof-of-concept is documented in the fix description.

Privilege Escalation Linux Red Hat +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno 1.18.0-1.18.1 lets any tenant who can create a NamespacedMutatingPolicy in their own namespace force the cluster-privileged admission controller to generate resources (ConfigMaps, Secrets, NetworkPolicies, RoleBindings) in arbitrary namespaces, including kube-system. The nmpol CEL compiler unintentionally exposes the generator library to matchConditions, and neither the mpol validator nor GenerateResources enforces namespace scope on the generator.apply() target. A working proof-of-concept is published in the vendor advisory (GHSA-79gf-7frw-68m9); there is no KEV listing or evidence of active exploitation, and the issue is fixed in 1.18.2.

Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege escalation in Ubiquiti UniFi OS affects a broad range of gateway, NVR, storage, and Cloud Key appliances running the UniFi OS platform, where leftover Active Debug Code (CWE-489) lets an authenticated low-privilege actor with network access elevate their privileges on the device. The flaw is vendor-reported via Ubiquiti Security Advisory Bulletin 067 and carries a 9.0 CVSS driven by a security-scope change and full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the wide device footprint makes it a notable patch priority.

Privilege Escalation Ubiquiti Network Attached Storage +13
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Cookie forgery in the Mang Board WP WordPress plugin (≤2.3.7) enables any subscriber-level account holder to forge administrator authentication cookies and change the administrator password, resulting in complete WordPress site takeover. The flaw originates in `mbw_get_hash_key()`, which generates HMAC material from the currently logged-in user's identity rather than the username embedded in the cookie under validation, while `mbw_validate_auth_cookie()` performs insufficient verification - allowing the forged cookie to pass as legitimate. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV listing is present, but the CVSS 8.8 score accurately reflects the low privilege bar required and full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's POSIX shared memory subsystem allows an unprivileged local user to gain root-level access by exploiting a race condition in the FIOSSHMLPGCNF ioctl handler. The kernel's largepage shared memory page-size configuration check is performed without holding the rangelock, enabling two concurrent callers to each observe an unconfigured object and write conflicting page sizes, corrupting kernel object state in an exploitable way. No public exploit code or CISA KEV entry has been identified at time of analysis; EPSS is 0.13% (3rd percentile), indicating low current exploitation probability, though local privilege escalation primitives in OS kernels are high-value targets for post-compromise and container-escape scenarios.

Privilege Escalation Freebsd
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's tty subsystem allows a local unprivileged user to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a race condition in the TIOCSCTTY ioctl handler. The handler fails to revalidate terminal state after a lock-drop sequence, enabling a concurrently destroyed terminal to be incorrectly linked to the attacker's session. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but vendor-confirmed patches exist for all affected release lines (15.0-RELEASE, 15.1-RELEASE, and 14.4-RELEASE).

Privilege Escalation Race Condition Freebsd
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

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Privilege Escalation Freebsd
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD's kernel audio subsystem allows an unprivileged local user on systems with multiple audio devices to exploit a use-after-free in the sync group ioctl locking path to achieve full kernel compromise. The race condition arises when the ioctl releases the sync group list lock to sleep during a blocking lock attempt, and a concurrent operation frees the sync group structure before the sleeping thread reawakens and dereferences it. Affected releases include FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE prior to p9, 15.0-RELEASE prior to p13, and 15.1-RELEASE prior to p3; no active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and EPSS sits at 0.16% (6th percentile), reflecting low current threat activity.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in FreeBSD 15.x unix socket implementation allows an unprivileged local user to achieve full system compromise via a use-after-free in the SOCK_STREAM receive path. Control messages are not fully detached from the socket buffer before error-path code frees the associated mbufs, leaving dangling references exploitable by a low-privileged attacker. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity (AC:L) and confirmed patch availability from the FreeBSD project make this a clear and immediate patching priority for affected deployments.

Privilege Escalation Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Privilege-management weakness in Google Chrome's Actor component (versions prior to 152.0.7977.65) lets a remote attacker who successfully socially-engineers a user into loading a crafted HTML page bypass system access restrictions. Chromium rates the underlying severity as Low, and no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS is 0.21% (11th percentile). Note a sharp signal conflict: the NVD-style CVSS base score is 9.8 (critical) while the vendor's own severity rating is Low and the description requires user interaction.

Privilege Escalation Google Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Improper privilege management in Chrome's Regional Capabilities component allows remote attackers to bypass system access restrictions by delivering a crafted Chrome extension through social engineering. Affected versions are all Chrome releases prior to 152.0.7977.65 across desktop platforms. Despite a CVSS base score of 8.8, EPSS exploitation probability is very low at 0.21% (11th percentile), no active exploitation is confirmed in CISA KEV, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Google Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH PATCH This Week

Sandbox escape via improper privilege management in Chrome's Navigation component allows a remote attacker who has already compromised the renderer process to break out of the Chrome sandbox and execute arbitrary code at OS level. Affected versions are all Chrome releases prior to 152.0.7977.65 across desktop platforms. The attack chain is multi-stage - renderer compromise must precede the sandbox escape - and social engineering is required, but the resulting impact is full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise outside the sandbox. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing have been identified at time of analysis; EPSS exploitation probability is low at 0.40% (33rd percentile).

Privilege Escalation RCE Google +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in ShopEngine (all versions up to and including 4.9.4) allows Shop Manager-level authenticated users to achieve full WordPress site takeover by injecting arbitrary core options through a malicious WXR import file. The plugin's `rum_importer()` function is hooked to the WordPress core `import_start` action without any plugin-owned capability check or allowlist filtering, meaning attacker-controlled `<wp_option>` pairs from a crafted import file flow directly into `update_option()` - enabling manipulation of `users_can_register` and `default_role` to open administrator self-registration. No CISA KEV listing or EPSS score was present in the provided data; exploitation requires an existing Shop Manager account and WooCommerce's grant of the `import` capability to that role, but once those conditions are met the path to full site compromise is straightforward and documented.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Total Donations WordPress plugin (all versions through 2.0.5) lets unauthenticated attackers promote themselves to full administrator, per Wordfence and Patchstack advisories. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) rates it Critical 9.8 with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code is identified at the time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV, but the unauthenticated network-reachable admin-takeover primitive makes it high priority.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Codefresh CI/CD platform allows authenticated platform users to elevate their account to Administrator level by invoking a specific API endpoint, per Codefresh security advisory SA2026-01. All versions covered by CPE cpe:2.3:a:octopus_deploy:codefresh are listed as affected with no minimum version floor specified. A successful attacker gains unrestricted administrative control of the platform - including access to all pipelines, stored secrets, integrations, and organizational settings. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and CISA KEV listing is not confirmed.

Privilege Escalation Red Hat Octopus Deploy +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation to SYSTEM in SKYSEA Client View and SKYMEC IT Manager (Sky Co., Ltd.) affects any Windows host where these IT management agents are installed. The root cause is CWE-276 - incorrect default permissions set on installation artifacts - allowing any authenticated local Windows user to plant or replace code that a SYSTEM-level service component subsequently executes. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing are confirmed at time of analysis, but the CVSS 4.0 score of 8.5 and zero attack complexity barriers make this a credible priority for organizations running these products in multi-user or shared-workstation environments.

Privilege Escalation RCE Microsoft +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Jawn WordPress theme (by MvpThemes) affects all versions through 1.4.2, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to promote themselves to a full administrator account. The flaw was disclosed by Wordfence and independently catalogued by Patchstack, and its CVSS 9.8 rating reflects unauthenticated, network-reachable takeover of the WordPress site. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jawn +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation via account takeover in InfusedWoo Pro (all versions up to and including 5.1.17) allows any authenticated subscriber-level user to hijack arbitrary WordPress accounts, including site administrators, by exploiting a missing capability check in the `ajax_iwar_preview_email()` AJAX function. The function incorrectly relies on `is_admin()` - a WordPress conditional that tests for admin-area request context rather than the requesting user's role - permitting low-privilege users to generate valid password reset links for any email address on the site. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, but the trivial exploitation path (subscriber-level access, no user interaction, no special configuration) makes this a high-priority remediation target for any site running the affected plugin.

WordPress Authentication Bypass Privilege Escalation +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the TranslatePress multilingual plugin for WordPress (all versions up to and including 3.3.2) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges within the site, per a Patchstack advisory. The flaw is classified as incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266) and carries a CVSS 9.8, implying an attacker can escalate to a high-impact role without authentication or user interaction. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Subscriber-level privilege escalation in the Booking Hub WordPress plugin (versions ≤ 1.3.0) allows authenticated users with only subscriber-level access to elevate their privileges to administrator-equivalent roles. The CVSS 8.8 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) confirms network-accessible exploitation with full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact once a low-privilege account is obtained. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity makes this a realistic priority for any WordPress site running the affected plugin with user registration enabled.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Insecure file creation in RansomLook (≤ 2.0.0) exposes the Flask session-signing secret to any local OS user with read access to the application home directory, enabling complete authentication bypass. The secret key governs Flask session cookie signing and the legacy API-key derivation function; possession of it allows an attacker to forge valid session cookies and impersonate any user, including administrators. In LDAP-configured deployments, exploitation is especially direct because the session user loader accepts arbitrary usernames without verifying their existence against any user store. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Python Ransomlook
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

HP Easy Start for macOS prior to version 2.16.7.260722 is affected by privilege escalation vulnerabilities rooted in CWE-319 (Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information), allowing an authenticated low-privilege attacker with network positioning to intercept sensitive data and gain elevated access on the affected macOS system. The CVSS 4.0 score of 7.7 reflects high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though the attack prerequisite modifier (AT:P) indicates specific conditions must be satisfied before exploitation succeeds. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; HP has released a patched version addressing these issues.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation in HP Easy Start for macOS (versions prior to 2.16.7.260722) allows low-privileged local users to gain elevated system access through insecure temporary file handling, classified under CWE-379. HP has released version 2.16.7.260722 to address these vulnerabilities, as detailed in advisory HPSBPI04124. No public exploit code exists and no CISA KEV listing is present at time of analysis, reducing immediate urgency despite a vendor-assigned CVSS 4.0 score of 7.7.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in HP Easy Start for macOS, versions prior to 2.16.7.260722, allow a local low-privileged user to gain elevated system access. Classified under CWE-1104 (Use of Unmaintained Third-Party Components), the root cause likely involves outdated bundled libraries within the printer setup utility. HP has released version 2.16.7.260722 as the remediation; no public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation Apple HP
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Zscaler Client Connector enables a standard (non-administrative) local user to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context via multiple improper privilege handling flaws (CWE-280). The scope change captured in the CVSS vector (S:C) reflects that exploitation breaks the security boundary of the Client Connector's privileged agent process, extending impact beyond the attacker's initial user context to full High-rated confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis.

Privilege Escalation RCE Client Connector +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the Jawn WordPress theme (versions ≤ 1.4.2, by mvpthemes) allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to elevate their privileges within a WordPress site, per a Patchstack advisory. The flaw is rooted in incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266) and carries a CVSS 9.8, implying an attacker can reach administrator-level control without credentials or user interaction. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Jawn +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the Affiliate Pro - Affiliate Program for WooCommerce & WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 8.9.1) lets remote, unauthenticated attackers improperly acquire elevated privileges on affected WordPress sites. Reported by Patchstack and tracked as EUVD-2026-64804, the flaw carries a critical CVSS 9.8 with a fully network-exploitable vector and no user interaction. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the low attack complexity and unauthenticated nature make it a high-priority patching target.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation in the Digits WordPress plugin (versions 9.2 and earlier by UnitedOver, LLC) allows remote attackers to elevate their privileges without any authentication or user interaction, per Patchstack's disclosure. Digits is an OTP/phone-based login and registration plugin, so a flaw in its privilege-handling logic can let an outsider gain elevated account access. CVSS is rated 9.8 (critical); there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Digits +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Local privilege escalation in Entevo HMI V2 R5 P0 M4 enables a low-privileged local user to break out of Kiosk Mode and gain administrative command execution on Windows. The escape path exploits the application's built-in PDF manual viewer: opening the manual triggers an external PDF reader, whose Print dialog exposes Windows Explorer shell access, ultimately permitting arbitrary command execution as an administrator. A proof-of-concept demonstration is publicly available via GitHub gist; EPSS is low at 0.17% and CISA SSVC indicates no confirmed active exploitation, though the public POC meaningfully lowers the skill bar for any attacker with local session access.

Privilege Escalation Microsoft N A
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL Act Now

Privilege escalation in the OnGres StackGres operator lets a low-privilege, database-owning tenant elevate to administrator privileges, breaking the multi-tenant isolation model of this Kubernetes-based PostgreSQL platform. The CVSS 9.9 rating with a scope change (S:C) reflects that an authenticated tenant confined to their own database can cross a trust boundary to gain full administrative control. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; the only public reference is a GitLab work item tracking the flaw.

Privilege Escalation Stackgres
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Unauthenticated privilege escalation to administrator in the RestrictMate WordPress plugin before 1.3.0 lets any remote visitor abuse the account-registration flow, which fails to validate the user role submitted during signup, to create a brand-new administrator account and receive a logged-in admin session - resulting in full site takeover. Rated CVSS 9.8 with a fully remote, no-interaction, no-privilege vector; a vendor patch (1.3.0) exists and CISA's SSVC framework flags it as automatable with total technical impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not on CISA KEV, and EPSS is low at 0.19% (8th percentile).

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD WPScan VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Privilege escalation in the Security Hardener WordPress plugin (all versions up to and including 2.4.4) allows any authenticated Subscriber-level user to create new Administrator accounts or reset existing Administrator passwords by sending crafted REST API requests. The plugin's user-enumeration blocking feature inadvertently replaces WordPress Core's granular capability checks on the /wp/v2/users REST endpoints with a bare is_user_logged_in() check, completely stripping create_users, edit_users, and delete_users enforcement. Because block_user_enum is enabled by default, this authorization bypass is active on every site immediately after plugin installation with no additional configuration required; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis.

WordPress Privilege Escalation
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

Privilege escalation in WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher (all versions through 2.8.24) allows any authenticated WordPress subscriber to gain full administrative access by invoking the unprotected wpematico_import_settings function. The missing capability check permits arbitrary WordPress site options to be overwritten, enabling attackers to enable user registration and set the default registration role to administrator - a two-stage takeover requiring only a valid subscriber account. No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but the attack chain is low-complexity and directly actionable by any authenticated user.

WordPress Privilege Escalation Wordpress Plugin +2
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