CVE-2021-47932: Thecartpress

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Thecartpress Thecartpress: up to and including 1.5.3.6

Published 2026-05-10. Last modified 2026-07-25.