CVE-2021-47932
📛 CVE Title
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Description
WordPress TheCartPress 1.5.3.6 contains an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to create administrator accounts by submitting crafted requests to the AJAX handler. Attackers can send POST requests to the tcp_register_and_login_ajax action with tcp_role set to administrator to gain full administrative access without authentication.
Overview
- State
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- Assigner (CNA)
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- CVSS severity
- critical
- CVSS score
- 9.8 / 10
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Effective score
- 9.8 / 10 CRITICAL source: CNA overview
- CWE(s)
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- Reserved
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- Published
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- Last updated
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- Source
- https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2021-47932
- Linked Threat
- CVE-2021-47932 — TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart <= 1.5.3.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
NVD triage scoring NVD CVE 2.0
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- NVD published
- 2026-05-10 13:16:29 UTC
- NVD last modified
- 2026-05-12 14:24:15 UTC
- NVD CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 / 10 CRITICAL source: disclosure@vulncheck.com
- NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Exploitability subscore
- 3.9 / 10
- Impact subscore
- 5.9 / 10
- EPSS score
- 0.0010 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
- EPSS percentile
- 26.69% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-05-24
NVD-assigned CWE(s):
CWE-862
(differs from the CNA list above)
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European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD
ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.
- EUVD ID
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EUVD-2021-34794 - Assigner
- VulnCheck
- Published
- May 10, 2026, 12:43:52 PM
- Updated
- May 11, 2026, 4:11:56 PM
- EUVD base score (CVSS 4.0)
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9.3 / 10
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EUVD-reported EPSS
- 0.1000
- Vendors
- TheCartPress
- Products
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TheCartPress (0 ≤1.5.3.6)
ENISA description: WordPress TheCartPress 1.5.3.6 contains an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to create administrator accounts by submitting crafted requests to the AJAX handler. Attackers can send POST requests to the tcp_register_and_login_ajax action with tcp_role set to administrator to gain full administrative access without authentication.
Vendor references (0)
References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.
None in the CVE record.
Web references (6)
DuckDuckGo results ranked by threat-intel / vendor advisory domains. Generated by the 🔎 Find references (web) button above — same flow as the Remediations search.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47932 tenable:nvd.nist.gov
- https://wordpress.org/plugin/thecartpress tenable:wordpress.org
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47932 tenable:www.cve.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50378 tenable:www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.first.org/epss/ tenable:www.first.org
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-thecartpress-privilege-escalation-unauthenticated tenable:www.vulncheck.com
NVD-tagged references (3)
Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.
- https://wordpress.org/plugin/thecartpress disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50378 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-thecartpress-privilege-escalation-unauthenticated disclosure@vulncheck.com
Indicators (1)
IOCs linked to the auto-promoted Threat row.
| Type | Value | VirusTotal | Attached |
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| cve |
CVE-2021-47932
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no local data | 2026-07-30 02:53 UTC |
Remediations (11)
Remediations are stored against the linked Threat row; the list below is deduplicated across both pages.
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Wordfence remediation: TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping CartWordfence
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
2026-07-30 02:53 UTC -
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web:support.microsoft.com
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web:www.pcworld.com
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