CVE-2026-104799
Description
The Mobile builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2 via the wcfmmp_profile_settings() REST handler exposed at POST /mobile-builder/v1/wcfm-profile-settings. This is due to a PHP loose-comparison logic flaw in the meta key allow-list check — strpos( $key, 'mobile_builder' ) == 0 evaluates to true for any key that does *not* contain the substring 'mobile_builder' because strpos() returns false on no match and false == 0 is true in PHP — combined with a permission_callback (user_permissions_check) that grants access to any authenticated user by only verifying $user->exists(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to pass an unsanitized data array via the key and data parameters directly to update_user_meta(), overwriting arbitrary user meta on their own account — including the wp_capabilities meta key — to grant themselves Administrator-level privileges.
Affected products
1- Range: <=1.4.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mobile-builder/trunk/api/class-mobile-builder-wcfm.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1a233e-ea62-4fb0-98eb-6b2aa893555dnvd
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