WordPress PublishPress Capabilities plugin <= 2.45.0 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability

published 2026-08-06 3 mo ago modified 2026-09-23 46 d ago also EUVD-2026-53953

cvss: 7.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in PublishPress PublishPress Capabilities capability-manager-enhanced allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects PublishPress Capabilities: from n/a through 2.45.0.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

PublishPress PublishPress Capabilities 2.50.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 46 d ago (2026-09-23)

Exploit prediction

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

PublishPress PublishPress Capabilities

Classification

Weakness

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/wordpress/plugin/capability-manager-enhanced/vulnerability/wordpress-publishpress-capabilities-plugi
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-28183
NVD CVE-2026-28183

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Summary