# CVE-2026-104725: Groundhogg <= 4.9 - Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation to 'user' Parameter

> Authenticated users with sales_rep access can escalate privileges to administrator by manipulating contact user links and generating auto-login URLs.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 11 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p495-v7fq-hqr5

## What is CVE-2026-104725?

CVE-2026-104725 is a high-severity vulnerability in trainingbusinesspros Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation, published on 10 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.9 This is due to a missing ownership and capability check on the `user` parameter within the `process_edit()` function, which allows any authenticated user with the `edit_contacts` capability to reassign a contact record's linked WordPress user ID to any arbitrary account without requiring the `edit_users` or `promote_users` capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with sales_rep-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to administrator by linking a contact to an administrator's WordPress user ID, then creating a note containing the `{auto_login_link}` replacement tag to trigger generation of a valid auto-login permissions-key URL for the administrator-linked contact, and finally visiting that URL to authenticate as the targeted administrator. The auto-login URL is stored in the note content and is readable back by the attacker via the `view_notes` and `add_notes` capabilities that the sales_rep role holds by default.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-104725?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-104725?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-104725 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-104725 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-104725 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-104725 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-104725 is a high-severity vulnerability in trainingbusinesspros Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation, published on 10 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-104725 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: trainingbusinesspros Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104725/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104725/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-104725
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104725
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-104725

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-104725/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.