CVE
VibeThemes VibeBP privilege escalation in email notification settings
- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- No fix listed
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
- Last modified
- Whether it needs action now or is a reference record, by fixed rules, with why. Last checked is when cve.now last re-read it.What do these mean? →
- Reference
- Last checked
- FIRST's estimate of the chance attackers exploit it in the next 30 days, updated daily.What do these mean? →
- 0.44% · 38th percentile
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 18/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
Summary
The VibeBP plugin from VibeThemes for WordPress lets a logged-in user with Subscriber-level access or higher make themselves an administrator. The flaw is reachable remotely over the network, and it needs only a low-privilege account, not admin rights.
Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from the sources below. Verify against them.
Read the original description
The VibeBP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.9.8.1. This is due to the plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates through the set_email_notification_settings() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to grant themselves administrator privileges by updating their own 'wp_capabilities' user meta value.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation0/40No signal
- Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
- Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
- Severity9.8/10CVSS 8.8, total technical impact per CISA
- No patch5/5No patch listed yet
What would change the score
- Would score about 73 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 68 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 37 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
Check your systems with an agent
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Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-16135 (VibeBP <= 1.9.9.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation in set_email_notification_settings()), using the cve.now data below.
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What cve.now has for CVE-2026-16135 (entry last updated 2026-11-13):
Affected:
- VibeThemes VibeBP: through 1.9.9.8.1
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-16135 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
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Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d726543c-9ce2-4359-978d-c72a451296a2?source=cve
- https://themeforest.net/item/wplms-learning-management-system/6780226
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Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-16135
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- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now1 day
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- VibeThemes VibeBP
through 1.9.9.8.1
Evidence 4
CVE record · 2
Establishes: The identifier and description.
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-16135
Is CVE-2026-16135 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-16135?
VibeBP: through 1.9.9.8.1.Source: cve.now feed data