CVE-2026-1492 PUBLISHED

User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Membership Registration

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 27.01.2026 Published: 03.03.2026 Updated: 03.03.2026

The User Registration & Membership – Custom Registration Form Builder, Custom Login Form, User Profile, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper privilege management in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2. This is due to the plugin accepting a user-supplied role during membership registration without properly enforcing a server-side allowlist. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts by supplying a role value during membership registration.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor wpeverest
Product User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 5.1.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Friderika Baranyai finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE