# CVE-2026-14279: Wholesale Market \<= 2.2.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via 'role\_required' Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-15 · Updated: 2026-08-18

## Affected

- cedcommerce Wholesale Market: through 2.2.2

## Description

The Wholesale Market plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.2.2 via the ced_wholesale_request_send AJAX action. The ced_wholesale_request_send_callback() handler only verifies a nonce (which is exposed to any authenticated user through wp_localize_script on the frontend) and that the caller has a positive user ID, then calls WP_User::add_role() with the client-supplied role_required POST parameter without restricting the value to an allowlist of wholesale roles. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to Administrator when the site administrator has enabled the 'Assigning requested role directly' option.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cedcommerce Wholesale Market, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abd59d7a-e7f6-440d-9c2a-00266c0dcbff?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L141
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L153
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L276
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wholesale-market/tags/2.2.2/addons/wholesale-request/include/class-wholesale-user-register-addon.php#L30

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