# CVE-2026-14328: Privilege escalation in Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress

> Authenticated subscribers can escalate to Administrator by exploiting insufficient authorization in AJAX handlers and REST endpoints to steal credentials.

- **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:** 28 Jul 2026
- **Updated:** 28 Jul 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8fxc-wrxg-769w

## What is CVE-2026-14328?

CVE-2026-14328 is a high-severity vulnerability in eazyplugins Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress, published on 28 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.1. This is due to insufficient authorization on the `wp_ajax_pos_get_option` AJAX handler, which verifies only a nonce that is localized to every logged-in admin-area user via `admin_enqueue_scripts` — without any capability check — before returning the value of any arbitrary WordPress option via `get_option()`, combined with the `admin_login_endpoint_handler` REST endpoint (`GET /wp-json/epm/v1/admin/login`) being registered as publicly accessible and authenticating callers solely by a whirlpool hash of values stored in those same options. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the `site_url`, `connection_key`, and `remote_user_id` values stored in the `eazywp_connecting_info` and `eazywp_connection` options, compute the required `auth_key`, call the `admin/login` REST endpoint to obtain Administrator authentication cookies, and fully take over the site. Exploitation requires the plugin's remote connection feature to have been configured, as the `eazywp_connecting_info` and `eazywp_connection` options must be populated with valid credentials.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-14328?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-14328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-14328 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-14328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-14328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-14328 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-14328 is a high-severity vulnerability in eazyplugins Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress, published on 28 Jul 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-2026-14328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: eazyplugins Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress. 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-2026-14328/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14328/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14328
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14328
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-14328

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14328/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.