# CVE-2026-104368: Export and Import Users and Customers plugin privilege escalation

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-104368-the-export-and-import-users-and-customers-plugin-for-wordpress  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-10-30. Updated: 2026-10-30  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-104368 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.8 · Published 2026-10-30

The Export and Import Users and Customers plugin for WordPress allows authenticated Subscriber-level users to escalate their privileges to Administrator by injecting malicious data during the export-import workflow. An attacker can craft a biographical information field containing a special character sequence that causes the CSV parser to create a fake user record with administrative access. This allows account takeover and full website compromise.

Vendors: [WordPress.org](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/wordpress-org).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-104368 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-104368 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-104368?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.8, published 30 October 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** WordPress.org Export and Import Users and Customers up to and including 2.7.5.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-104368?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**How is CVE-2026-104368 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-104368?** Check whether you run WordPress.org Export and Import Users and Customers at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is a CSV escape-character mismatch between the exporter (using backslash escape) and importer (using double-quote escape) in class-csvwriter.php and class-csvreader.php. An authenticated attacker with Subscriber-level access can inject a crafted backslash-quote-newline sequence in the Biographical Info field, causing the CSV importer to parse the injected payload as a new user record with attacker-controlled login, password, email, and role, enabling arbitrary Administrator account creation.

## Affected products

- Wordpress.org Export and Import Users and Customers up to and including 2.7.5

## Timeline

- 2026-10-30: disclosed

## References

- [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/users-customers-import-export-for-wp-woocommerce/tags/2.7.5/admin/classes/class-csvreader.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/users-customers-import-export-for-wp-woocommerce/tags/2.7.5/admin/classes/class-csvreader.php)
- [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/users-customers-import-export-for-wp-woocommerce/tags/2.7.5/admin/classes/class-csvwriter.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/users-customers-import-export-for-wp-woocommerce/tags/2.7.5/admin/classes/class-csvwriter.php)