Is there a public exploit for CVE-2026-123769?

No public exploit for CVE-2026-123769 was found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei templates or public proof-of-concept repositories. That is an absence of evidence rather than proof that none exists.

How severe is CVE-2026-123769?

CVE-2026-123769 scores CVSS 8.8 (v3.1), rated high.

What does CVE-2026-123769 affect?

CVE-2026-123769 affects brainstormforce SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard.

8.8 High

The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and…

CVE-2026-123769

The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.0 This is due to the savesettings() REST handler at /suredash/v1/save-settings being gated only by adminpermissioncallback(), which authorizes any holder of the custom manageportaldashboard capability (Portal Manager role) without requiring promoteusers, editusers, or manageoptions, combined with sanitizesettingsdata() iterating all attacker-supplied keys with no allow-list, allowing arbitrary keys such as defaultrole to pass through sanitizetextfield() unchanged and be persisted into the portalsettings option via updateoption() with no role-validity check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Portal Manager-level access and above to poison the defaultrole setting to administrator, after which any subsequent new-user registration through the publicly accessible block-register endpoint reads the corrupted setting and passes it directly to wpinsertuser(), producing a full WordPress Administrator account under the attacker's control. The exploit requires two steps: a POST to the authenticated save-settings…

Assessment

CVSS: 8.8 (v3.1)
Severity: High
Known exploited: Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability: Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published: 13 November 2026
Last updated: 13 November 2026
Affected: brainstormforce · SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard
Assigner: Wordfence

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

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