How severe is CVE-2026-1492?

CVE-2026-1492 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). EPSS estimates a 28.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE-2026-1492: User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.2 -

Q: What is CVE-2026-1492?

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.

Description

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.8 CRITICAL

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationnone

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
wpeverest	User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder	0 to 5.1.2

References

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Record Details

Published

2026-03-03

Last updated

2026-04-08

Assigner (CNA)

Wordfence

Credited to

Friderika Baranyai

Related Tool Categories

Tool categories that test for or protect against this vulnerability class.

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

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