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Groundhogg <= 4.8.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Support User Identity Confusion

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

The Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.3 via the `create_support_user()` function. This is due to the function identifying the support account solely by matching against publicly hardcoded constants — `user_login` `'groundhogg'` and email addresses `'support@groundhogg.io'` / `'help@groundhogg.io'` — where the `in_array()` email-equality check at line 238 is not a security boundary because any user fully controls their own email value. This makes it possible for an attacker with an account whose `user_login` is `'groundhogg'` and whose `user_email` matches one of the hardcoded support constants to have that account silently promoted to administrator — and additionally to super admin on multisite when the triggering administrator holds `manage_network_options` — resulting in full site takeover. Exploitation requires a two-actor flow: the attacker must first obtain or pre-plant an account with the hardcoded credentials (possible when open user registration is enabled or another account-creation path exists), after which a legitimate administrator must invoke the support-access feature via the `submit_ticket` or `process_send_support_access` entry points to trigger the promotion.

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CVE-2026-92975

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-92975

Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation

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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "vendor": "trainingbusinesspros",
    "product": "Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "4.8.3"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-92975

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Publisher severity

high

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Event
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