Improper privilege management in carazo Import and export users and customers
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
The Import and export users and customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to and including 2.0.8 via the `save_extra_user_profile_fields()` function. This is due to an incomplete blocklist that correctly restricts capability meta keys for the primary site (e.g., `wp_capabilities`, `wp_user_level`) but fails to block the equivalent meta keys for any other subsite in a WordPress Multisite network (e.g., `wp_2_capabilities`, `wp_2_user_level`), allowing these keys to pass the `in_array()` check and be written directly to user meta via `update_user_meta()`. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to Administrator on any subsite within the Multisite network by submitting a crafted profile update to `/wp-admin/profile.php`. Exploitation requires that an administrator has previously imported a CSV file containing multisite-prefixed capability column headers and has enabled the 'Show fields in profile?' option, which causes those keys to be stored in the `acui_columns` option and exposed as editable fields on the user profile page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-7641
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3v5c-rmm5-g74r
References
Other 14
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/368cff00-6a86-443e-aec4-4115a229a3c1?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/classes/columns.php#L221
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.8/classes/columns.php#L221
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/classes/columns.php#L198
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.8/classes/columns.php#L198
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/classes/helper.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.8/classes/helper.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/trunk/classes/multisite.php#L21
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.8/classes/multisite.php#L21
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.6/classes/columns.php#L221
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.6/classes/columns.php#L198
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.6/classes/helper.php#L150
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/tags/2.0.6/classes/multisite.php#L21
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3515646
More carazo vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-85003 Import and export users and customers: Privilege Escalation via Cron Save CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-59231 Import and export users and customers <= 2.4.17 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-03129 Improper privilege management in carazo Import and export users and customers CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-74595 Stored cross-site scripting in Import and export users and customers CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2026-12647 Missing authorization in carazo Import and export users and customers CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2024-04407 Import and export users and customers <= 1.26.6.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-7641 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-7641 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3v5c-rmm5-g74r · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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