CVE-2026-80071 — User Registration & Membership < 5.2.8 - Author+ Privilege Escalation to Administrator

CVE-2026-80071

User Registration & Membership < 5.2.8 - Author+ Privilege Escalation to Administrator PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.8 does not properly restrict who may author a membership plan or validate the plan a user attaches to their own account, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to assign themselves an arbitrary role and escalate their privileges to Administrator.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Unknown / User Registration & Membership	affected 0 before 5.2.8

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a4fbdeea-0d3b-466b-b4b6-4c4db277cd1d/

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.