CVE-2026-15240 Privilege escalation in Customer Switching
A lower-privileged user can escalate to administrator privileges by exploiting insecure session binding in the Customer Switching plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-15240?
CVE-2026-15240 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown Customer Switching, published on 30 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Customer Switching WordPress plugin before 2.1.3 does not securely bind an active user-switching session to the operator who initiated it, allowing a lower-privileged account that an operator is currently switched into to be resolved as that operator and to switch into any permitted account, including an administrator, resulting in full account takeover.
Weakness: CWE-287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-15240?
How do I fix CVE-2026-15240?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-15240 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-15240 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-15240 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fpgp-7gxr-qx3q.