CVE-2026-103692 Frontend Dashboard CVE debrief

Who should care

Defenders responsible for WordPress installations using Frontend Dashboard versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.4 should assess exposure and prioritize remediation. This includes security teams, vulnerability management teams, and operators responsible for maintaining WordPress installations.

Why it matters

Defenders should prioritize verifying and remediating this vulnerability in their WordPress installations, especially if they use Frontend Dashboard versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.4, as it allows unauthenticated users to take over any account, including administrators.

• Unauthenticated users can take over any account, including administrators
• Potential for privilege escalation and arbitrary function calls

Technical summary

The Frontend Dashboard WordPress plugin before 3.0.5 does not perform any authorisation or nonce check on actions available to unauthenticated users that call an attacker-chosen PHP function or class method with the request data, allowing unauthenticated users to take over any account, including administrators. This vulnerability affects WordPress installations using Frontend Dashboard versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.4 and allows for unauthenticated privilege escalation and arbitrary function calls. Defenders should prioritize verifying and remediating this vulnerability in their WordPress installations.

Defensive priority

Defenders should prioritize verifying and remediating this vulnerability in their WordPress installations, especially if they use Frontend Dashboard versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.4.

Recommended defensive actions

• Verify and remediate this vulnerability in WordPress installations using Frontend Dashboard versions 3.0.0 to 3.0.4
• Update Frontend Dashboard to version 3.0.5 or later
• Monitor for potential exploitation attempts
• Review compensating controls for exposed systems while remediation is scheduled and verified
• Check relevant monitoring, detection, and logs for exposed assets that need extra review
• Track exceptions, retest remediated assets, and close the item only after evidence is documented
• Confirm whether affected product deployments exist in managed environments and assign an owner for follow-up

Evidence notes

The CVE record and source item provide details on the vulnerability, but there is limited information on affected versions and no information on exploitation. The source item notes that the vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to take over any account, including administrators. The CVE Program record and NIST NVD detail page provide additional context, but further verification is needed to determine the full scope of the vulnerability.

Sources and references

Methodology and review provenance

AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.