CVE-2026-79996 — User Registration & Membership < 5.2.6 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Login Settings

CVE-2026-79996

User Registration & Membership < 5.2.6 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Login Settings PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 does not perform a capability check when saving its login settings, allowing authenticated users who have been granted a User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 management capability but not full administrator access to change arbitrary site options and escalate their privileges to administrator.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Unknown / User Registration & Membership	affected 0 before 5.2.6

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/609bbb7c-c19a-4c72-8cef-95598a2cfc0d/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.