CVE-2026-75971
HighCVSS 7.2Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs
Summary
The ShopEngine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to and including 4.9.4. The `rum_importer()` function is registered on the `import_start` hook without proper capability checks, allowing authenticated attackers with Shop Manager-level access to write arbitrary WordPress options, including setting `users_can_register` to 1 and `default_role` to administrator, enabling open self-registration of Administrator accounts and full site takeover.
Risk Assessment
The risk is critical because attackers with lower privileges (Shop Manager) can gain full control over the WordPress site, leading to complete takeover and potential data compromise.
Recommendation
Immediately update the ShopEngine plugin to the latest patched version. Additionally, restrict access to the import functionality to trusted administrators only.
Other vulnerabilities in ShopEngine
See all- CVE-2026-85575Medium
The ShopEngine Elementor WooCommerce Builder Addon – All in One WooCommerce Solution with eCommerce Templates & Woo Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘shopengine_product_title_header_size’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVE-2025-11888Low
The ShopEngine Elementor WooCommerce Builder Addon plugin for WordPress up to version 4.8.4 is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification due to insufficient capability checks in the post_deactive() and post_activate() functions. This allows authenticated attackers with Editor-level access or above to activate and deactivate licenses.
Original NVD description (English source)
The ShopEngine Elementor WooCommerce Builder Addon – All in One WooCommerce Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.4. This is due to the `rum_importer()` function being registered on the WordPress core `import_start` action hook with no plugin-owned capability check and no allowlist filtering, causing arbitrary `<wp_option>` name/value pairs parsed from an attacker-supplied WXR import file to be passed directly to `update_option()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to write arbitrary WordPress options — most critically setting `users_can_register` to `1` and `default_role` to `administrator` — enabling open self-registration of Administrator accounts and full site takeover. This is exploitable by Shop Manager-level users because WooCommerce grants that role the `import` capability, allowing it to reach the WordPress Importer flow that fires the `import_start` hook on which `rum_importer()` is registered, contrary to the assumption that the hook is restricted to Administrators.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

