CVE-2026-11961

User Registration & Membership < 5.2.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Unbound members_data Membership ID

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: July 17, 2026 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: July 17, 2026 at 07:55 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorUser Registration & Membership

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 does not validate that the membership tier submitted during public registration is one of the tiers allowed by the registration form before assigning that tier's associated user role, allowing unauthenticated users to register into an arbitrary published membership tier and obtain its role — up to administrator when such a tier exists.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 5.2.3
Affected range stops below 5.2.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

ExploitVDB EntryTechnical Description
Source: cverecord
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2ffab574-8626-472e-b6e4-09bcbaa62349/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

8.1HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-269

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