CVE-2026-15451 PUBLISHED

MemberPress Corporate Accounts <= 1.5.39 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via Mass Assignment in Sub-Account Creation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 10.07.2026 Published: 12.09.2026 Updated: 12.09.2026

The MemberPress Corporate Accounts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.5.39. This is due to a mass assignment vulnerability in the 'add_sub_account_user' function that passes the raw 'userdata' array to 'wp_insert_user' without filtering dangerous keys like role or ID. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above who hold a corporate account, to create new administrator accounts or hijack existing administrator accounts by overwriting their email addresses. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 1.5.39.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor MemberPress
Product MemberPress Corporate Accounts
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.5.39 (incl.)

Credits

  • andrea bocchetti finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE