The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.8 does not check the capability of the user making a membership purchase, and does not validate the payment method or the plan submitted with it, allowing any authenticated user such as a subscriber to be granted the WordPress role attached to a paid plan without paying for it. Where the site owner has mapped a plan to a privileged role, this leads to privilege escalation up to administrator.

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Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:45:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-285

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpuserregistration
Wpuserregistration user Registration \& Membership
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpuserregistration
Wpuserregistration user Registration \& Membership

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-285

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-269
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.8 does not check the capability of the user making a membership purchase, and does not validate the payment method or the plan submitted with it, allowing any authenticated user such as a subscriber to be granted the WordPress role attached to a paid plan without paying for it. Where the site owner has mapped a plan to a privileged role, this leads to privilege escalation up to administrator.
Title User Registration & Membership < 5.2.8 - Subscriber+ Privilege Escalation via Membership Purchase
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-13T10:45:23.160Z

Reserved: 2026-09-07T12:04:24.688Z

Link: CVE-2026-86406

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-13T10:42:09.695Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-13T06:16:25.157

Modified: 2026-09-14T21:10:17.423

Link: CVE-2026-86406

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-15T00:15:10Z

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