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critical 10 October 2026 · Severity 9.1/10 · CVE-2026-107645

Blocksy Companion: privilege escalation

What's happening

Blocksy Companion has a privilege escalation flaw in every version up to 2.1.58 (included): a low-privileged user can grant themselves administrator rights. Anyone can exploit it, without an account on the site. More than 300,000 websites use it.

What to do

Update Blocksy Companion to version 2.1.59 or later (Dashboard → Plugins in WordPress). If you can't update yet, deactivate it until you can.

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Source: Wordfence Intelligence (Defiant, Inc.). Original record · CVE-2026-107645. Original title: «Blocksy Companion <= 2.1.58 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'role' Parameter».

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