Vulnerability · Published Nov 7, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-119075Registration Form for WooCommerce <= 1.1.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'user_roles' Parameter at Checkout
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity privilege mismanagement in Registration Form for WooCommerce from themegrill. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far.
Official description
The Registration Form for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing allow-list check in the FormHandler::validate_checkout_fields() function in versions up to, and including, 1.1.4 The My Account registration path (validate_fields()) validates a submitted 'tgwcfb/user-roles' value against the form's configured allowed roles, but the checkout registration path (validate_checkout_fields(), hooked to woocommerce_after_checkout_validation) stores the raw $_POST['user_roles'] value in $this->valid_data without any allow-list enforcement, and add_user_data() then injects that value into woocommerce_new_customer_data as the new account's role. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to Administrator by supplying a user_roles=administrator parameter when creating an account during checkout, resulting in full site takeover.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| themegrill | Registration Form for WooCommerce | 0 – through 1.1.4 |
Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/714d10b0-526c-4347-a369-85fc32ef3478?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/registration-form-for-woocommerce/tags/1.1.3/includes/FormHandler.php#L354
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/registration-form-for-woocommerce/tags/1.1.3/includes/FormHandler.php#L407
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fregistration-form-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.1.4&new_path=%2Fregistration-form-for-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F1.1.5