CVE-2026-103692: Frontend Dashboard privilege escalation vulnerability
critical 9.8 published 2026-10-08
- Affected versions
- 3.0.0 up to (not including) 3.0.5
- Fixed in
- 3.0.5
- Latest version
- 3.1.1
- Severity
- Critical · CVSS 9.8
- Active installs
- 400+
- Type
- Privilege escalation
What an attacker needs
- Access: None. No account or login is needed.
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What to do now
- Update Frontend Dashboard to 3.0.5 or newer (the latest is 3.1.1): Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- Not sure which version you run? Check your version against every known Frontend Dashboard issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get frontend-dashboard --field=version. - If you ran an affected version and something looks off (new admin users, spam pages, redirects), run the free scan below.
The advisory
The Frontend Dashboard WordPress plugin before 3.0.5 does not perform any authorisation or nonce check on actions available to unauthenticated users that call an attacker-chosen PHP function or class method with the request data, allowing unauthenticated users to take over any account, including administrators.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-103692 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
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Where this data comes from
- CVE record, score and references: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Versions and install counts: wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-dashboard (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- The summary, “what an attacker needs” and “what to do” sections are our plain-English reading of the record and the plugin's release history; the quoted description is the record's own text. Spot an error? Email Daniel.