CVE-2026-16635 PUBLISHED

Pronamic Pay <= 10.1.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Gravity Forms 'Update user role' Field

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 22.07.2026 Published: 01.08.2026 Updated: 01.08.2026

The Pronamic Pay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 10.1.0 This is due to the maybe_update_user_role() function passing an attacker-controlled Gravity Forms field value ($lead[$feed->user_role_field_id]) directly into WP_User::set_role() without any allowlist validation, capability comparison, or permission check to constrain which roles can be assigned. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their own WordPress account to Administrator by tampering with the role field value in a form submission. Exploitation requires that an administrator has already configured a Pronamic Pay payment feed in Gravity Forms with the Update User Role option enabled and mapped to a form field; once that configuration is in place, no further preconditions exist to prevent an authenticated attacker from exploiting this vulnerability.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor pronamic
Product Pronamic Pay
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 10.1.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Afan finder
  • moonge finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE