CVE-2026-4003 PUBLISHED

Users manager – PN <= 1.1.15 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover via 'userspn_form_save' AJAX Action

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 11.03.2026 Published: 08.04.2026 Updated: 08.04.2026

The Users manager – PN plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary User Meta Update in all versions up to and including 1.1.15. This is due to a flawed authorization logic check in the userspn_ajax_nopriv_server() function within the 'userspn_form_save' case. The conditional only blocks unauthenticated users when the user_id is empty, but when a non-empty user_id is supplied, execution bypasses this check entirely and proceeds to update arbitrary user meta via update_user_meta() without any authentication or authorization verification. Additionally, the nonce required for this AJAX endpoint ('userspn-nonce') is exposed to all visitors via wp_localize_script on the public wp_enqueue_scripts hook, rendering the nonce check ineffective as a security control. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary user metadata for any user account, including the userspn_secret_token field.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor felixmartinez
Product Users manager – PN
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.1.15 (incl.)

Credits

  • HA GIA BAO finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE