# SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard <= 1.13.0 - Authenticated (Portal Manager+) Privilege Escalation via Settings Save

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2928
- **Plugin:** SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard (`suredash`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/
- **Affected versions:** from 1.1.0 before 1.13.1
- **Fixed in:** 1.13.1 (Update to 1.13.1 or later.)
- **Severity:** High 7.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **Weakness:** CWE-269
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-11-12)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/suredash
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-10
- **Published:** 2026-11-12
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2928/

## Description

The SureDash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the settings save REST endpoint and the onboarding setup step in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.0, due to the endpoint being available to Portal Managers without manage_options, storing arbitrary keys not defined in the settings schema (such as 'default_role'), and accepting the registration-related 'user_capability' and 'override_wp_registration' settings. The registration form and social login handlers use 'default_role' as the role of new users and grant them every capability of the roles listed in 'user_capability'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Portal Manager access to open registration, set the role for new users to administrator, and then register a new account that has full administrator access.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2928/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/suredash/tags/1.13.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2928/

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.