User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.2 — Authentication Bypass
CVE-2026-1779Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.1.2Update to 5.1.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.1
- CVSS
- 8.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder user-registration
- Affected≤ 5.1.2
- Patched in5.1.3
Update to 5.1.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.1.2. Version 5.1.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.1.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to 0xd4rk5id3.
The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.1.2. This is due to incorrect authentication in the 'register_member' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in a newly registered user on the site who has the 'urm_user_just_created' user meta set.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2 | CVE-2026-124258 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1 | CVE-2026-120840 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2 | CVE-2026-119522 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1 | CVE-2026-27061 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1 | CVE-2026-25450 |
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.3.1Update to 5.3.2
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.3.0Update to 5.3.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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