Dokan Pro: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Dokan Pro is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess. The published affected range is <= 5.0.4.
- Component
- Dokan Pro
- Plugin slug
dokan-pro- Affected
- <= 5.0.4
- Safe version
> 5.0.4- Published
- Jul 01, 2026
This CVE was published Jul 01, 2026 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Dokan Pro to a release after 5.0.4, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Dokan Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via update_capabilities REST Endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.4. This is due to the `update_capabilities()` REST handler accepting arbitrary capability strings from the request body and passing them directly to WP_User::add_cap() with no allowlist validation, only verifying that the caller holds the dokandar capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with a self-provisioned Vendor-level access and above, on sites with the Vendor Staff module enabled, to grant arbitrary WordPress capabilities, including administrator, to any vendor_staff account, leading to a full site takeover.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H