B2BKing — Ultimate WooCommerce B2B and Wholesale Plugin — Wholesale Prices, Bulk Order Form & More vulnerability

What happened

The B2BKing — Ultimate WooCommerce B2B and Wholesale Plugin — Wholesale Prices, Bulk Order Form & More WordPress plugin before 5.2.40 does not verify that a role selected during registration is one actually offered on the registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to assign themselves to restricted B2B customer groups and to skip the manual account-approval workflow during self-registration.

Affected versions

B2BKing — Ultimate WooCommerce B2B and Wholesale Plugin — Wholesale Prices, Bulk Order Form & More: before 5.2.40 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.