# GamiPress <= 8.0.5 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Rank Modification via gamipress_profile_update_user_rank AJAX Action

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0917
- **Plugin:** GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI (`gamipress`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/gamipress/
- **Affected versions:** from 1.5.9 before 8.0.6
- **Fixed in:** 8.0.6 (Update to 8.0.6 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-14)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/gamipress
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-08
- **Published:** 2026-10-14
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0917/

## Description

The GamiPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the gamipress_ajax_profile_update_user_rank() function in versions 1.5.9 up to, and including, 8.0.5. The function only checked the 'gamipress_admin' nonce, which is printed on every wp-admin page, and the edit_user capability, which every user has for their own account. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to set their own rank.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0917/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gamipress/tags/8.0.6/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/gamipress/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0917/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.