The BuddyForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.5 via a form-type…
CVE-2026-107622
The BuddyForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.5 via a form-type confusion attack through the bfposttype parameter. This is due to the public frontend submission handler buddyformsformresponsenoajax() authorizing logged-out submissions based solely on the target form's publicsubmit flag while independently trusting the attacker-supplied $POST['bfposttype'] to determine the post type of the newly created object — a cross-check introduced in 2.10.2 applies only to existing posts (postid != 0) and is completely bypassed for new-object creation — combined with the savepost listener buddyformseditformsavemetaboxdata() lacking both a currentusercan() capability check and a form-builder nonce, causing it to unconditionally persist attacker-supplied $POST['buddyformsoptions'] for any newly inserted buddyforms CPT post. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to insert a rogue BuddyForms form configuration with an attacker-controlled newuserrole value into the live global form registry, then submit a registration through that form to create a new WordPress account with administrator-level privileges and…
Assessment
- CVSS
- 9.8 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Critical
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 6 November 2026
- Last updated
- 6 November 2026
- Affected
- ThemeKraft · BuddyForms
- Assigner
- Wordfence
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
At the source
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2e83e654-f8a6-44a6-a687-92606331309e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/form/form.php#L476
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/admin/register-post-types.php#L216
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/form/form-control.php#L258
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/form/form-control.php#L642
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/wp-insert-user.php#L241
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buddyforms/tags/2.10.2/includes/wp-insert-user.php#L702
- https://github.com/Themekraft/buddyforms/pull/779/files
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3780268/buddyforms/trunk/includes/admin/register-post-types.php
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