CVE-2024-8289: The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation/de-escalation and account takeover due to an insufficient capabi

critical Affects dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation/de-escalation and account takeover due to an insufficient capabi

Package
dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<4.2.1
Fixed in
4.2.1
Severity
critical  CVSS 9.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (69.4th percentile)
Published
2024-09-04
Source
nvd

References

CWE-862
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