CVE-2026-4056 PUBLISHED

User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Content Access Rule Manipulation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 12.03.2026 Published: 23.03.2026 Updated: 23.03.2026

The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Content Access Rules REST API endpoints in versions 5.0.1 through 5.1.4. This is due to the check_permissions() method only checking for edit_posts capability instead of an administrator-level capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to list, create, modify, toggle, duplicate, and delete site-wide content restriction rules, potentially exposing restricted content or denying legitimate user access.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

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 5.1.4 (incl.)

Credits

  • darkestmode finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE