CVE-2026-8761

Vulnerability Description

The Dokan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1. This is due to a missing authorization check in the `CustomersController` REST controller (`includes/REST/CustomersController.php`), which re-registers WooCommerce's customer CRUD routes under the `/dokan/v1/customers/` namespace and replaces WooCommerce's native `manage_woocommerce` capability check with a vendor-only check that inspects the **requesting** user's role and never validates the **target** user. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Vendor/Seller-level access and above to read, modify, or delete any WordPress user — including administrators — via `GET`/`PUT`/`DELETE` requests against `/wp-json/dokan/v1/customers/{id}`. Setting the `password` parameter on an administrator's record yields a full site takeover.

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References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/C
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/C
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/C
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/tags/5.0.1/includes/REST/C
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/Custom
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/Custom
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/Custom
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dokan-lite/trunk/includes/REST/Custom
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?new=3541712%40dokan-lite%2Ftags%2F5
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24666f75-9179-4043-841