CVE-2026-107645
The Blocksy Companion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.1.5
Summary
The Blocksy Companion plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.1.58 This is due to the implement_user_registration() AJAX handler explicitly disabling Dokan's vendor-registration nonce check (via add_filter('dokan_register_nonce_check', '__return_false')) and then trusting an attacker-supplied $_POST['role'] value when invoking wc_create_new_customer() and wc_set_customer_auth_cookie(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to a Dokan 'seller' (vendor) account — including sites where the Dokan vendor signup is explicitly turned off — and to be auto-authenticated into that account, which grants publishing capabilities beyond those of a normal customer.
Published 2026-10-10 · first seen here 2026-10-10
Analysis & write-ups
No technical write-up from a research team yet. Contact Zero checks Unit 42, Google/Mandiant, Microsoft, Talos, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, watchTowr and others several times a day, plus NVD and CISA reference links.
Where it shows in your logs
Server or web application · Local privilege escalation medium confidence
What to look for
- SYSTEM or root processes started from a non-admin user's session
- Known exploit tool names or unsigned binaries run from user-writable folders (Temp, Downloads, /tmp)
- The application's process (w3wp.exe, java, tomcat, node, php-fpm, httpd, python) starting shells or LOLBins (cmd, powershell, sh, bash, curl, wget, certutil)
- New script files in web roots (.jsp, .aspx, .php): a web shell
- Requests to unusual URLs on the application from internet IPs right before any of the above
- Outbound connections from the server to new external IPs
Data sources
Web server and WAF logs · ATT&CK DS0015 Application Log Content
- Sentinel
W3CIISLogAppServiceHTTPLogsAzureDiagnostics (Application Gateway / Front Door WAF)_Im_WebSession- Splunk
Web.Webms:iis:autoaccess_combinedWAF / proxy sourcetypes- CrowdStrike
Falcon Next-Gen SIEM: third-party web / WAF / proxy logs
Process creation · ATT&CK DS0009 Process Creation
- Sentinel
DeviceProcessEventsSecurityEvent (4688)Sysmon Event ID 1_Im_ProcessCreate- Splunk
Endpoint.ProcessesXmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/OperationalWinEventLog:Security (4688)- CrowdStrike
ProcessRollup2SyntheticProcessRollup2
File creation · ATT&CK DS0022 File Creation
- Sentinel
DeviceFileEventsSysmon Event ID 11_Im_FileEvent- Splunk
Endpoint.FilesystemSysmon Event ID 11- CrowdStrike
NewExecutableWrittenNewScriptWritten*FileWritten events
Network connections · ATT&CK DS0029 Network Connection Creation / Network Traffic Flow
- Sentinel
DeviceNetworkEventsCommonSecurityLog (firewall)_Im_NetworkSession- Splunk
Network_Traffic.All_TrafficFirewall sourcetypes (pan:traffic, fortigate_traffic, cisco:asa)- CrowdStrike
NetworkConnectIP4NetworkReceiveAcceptIP4NetworkConnectIP6
Account and group changes · ATT&CK DS0002 User Account Creation / Modification
- Sentinel
SecurityEvent (4720, 4728, 4732, 4756)AuditLogsIdentityDirectoryEvents- Splunk
Change.All_Changes (Account_Management)WinEventLog:Security (4720, 4732)- CrowdStrike
UserAccountCreatedUserAccountAddedToGroup
A generic baseline worked out from the product type and weakness (CWE-269), not a detection. Check table and field names against your environment. Hunt queries for Sigma, Splunk, Sentinel and CrowdStrike are coming.
References
- NVD entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blocksy-companion/tags/2.1.58/framework/features/account-auth.php#L181
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blocksy-companion/tags/2.1.58/framework/features/account-auth.php#L24
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blocksy-companion/tags/2.1.58/framework/features/account-auth.php#L241
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3735192/blocksy-companion/tags/2.1.59/framework/features/account-auth.php?old=3723693&old_path=blocksy-companion%2Ftags%2F2.1.58%2Fframework%2Ffeatures%2Faccount-auth.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7757f41d-c1f1-4df1-8048-b1c78a897548?source=cve