WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Demo Importer Plus < 2.0.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Site Reset and Privilege Escalation

Description

The Demo Importer Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data, loss of data, and privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the Ajax::handle_request() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger a full site reset, dropping all database tables except users/usermeta and re-running wp_install(), which also assigns the Administrator role to the attacking subscriber account.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.0.9

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
shark3y
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-12-17 (about 5 months ago)
Added
2025-12-17 (about 5 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-12-18 (about 5 months ago)

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