CVE-2026-8787
The Firebase Support & Chat Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The Firebase Support & Chat Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. This is due to the `firebase_auth()` function authenticating the request as the WordPress user whose email is supplied in the `user_email` POST parameter without verifying ownership of that email (no Firebase ID token signature/issuer/audience verification). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to log in as an arbitrary existing user — including an Administrator — by submitting that user's email address to the `acb_firebase_auth` AJAX action, resulting in full account takeover.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 21th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/tags/3.1.1/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L237
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/tags/3.1.1/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/trunk/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L237
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-chat-box/trunk/inc/ACB_AjaxHandler.php#L338
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/90783d75-a255-4133-ac7b-32e0a70c8c69?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.