CVE-2026-93548: FooSales privilege escalation vulnerability
high 8.8 published 2026-10-09
- Affected versions
- older than 1.43.3
- Fixed in
- 1.43.3
- Latest version
- 1.43.11
- Severity
- High · CVSS 8.8
- Active installs
- 700+
- Type
- Privilege escalation
What an attacker needs
- Access: A low-level account on the site, such as a subscriber or customer (per the CVSS score).
CVSS vector (score by CISA ADP): CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What to do now
- Update FooSales to 1.43.3 or newer (the latest is 1.43.11): 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 FooSales issue.
With WP-CLI:
wp plugin get foosales --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 FooSales WordPress plugin before 1.43.3 does not verify that an authenticated caller is entitled to act as the user a request names, allowing any authenticated user to have the FooSales WordPress plugin before 1.43.3 act as an arbitrary other user, including an administrator, resulting in that user's account details being exposed and their account being taken over.
References
- NVD CVE-2026-93548 nvd.nist.gov
- WPScan advisory wpscan.com
Related
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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/foosales (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.