CVE-2026-2294 Missing authorization in UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages
Authenticated subscribers can modify arbitrary plugin settings due to missing capability checks in the UiPress lite WordPress 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-2026-2294?
CVE-2026-2294 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in admintwentytwenty UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages, published on 21 Mar 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The UiPress lite | Effortless custom dashboards, admin themes and pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'uip_save_global_settings' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.09. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary plugin settings.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-2294?
How do I fix CVE-2026-2294?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-2294 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-2294 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-2294 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r2mm-9gj3-rpm5.