ARMember Premium <= 7.3.1 — Insecure Password Reset Mechanism to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-5076Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.3.1Update to 7.3.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup armember
- Affected≤ 7.3.1
- Patched in7.3.2
Update to 7.3.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 7.3.1. Version 7.3.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup.
- 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 7.3.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to h0xilo.
The ARMember Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an insecure password reset mechanism in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.1. The plugin stores a plaintext copy of the password reset key in the `arm_reset_password_key` user meta field when a user requests a password reset. This is in addition to the hashed key that WordPress core stores securely in `wp_users.user_activation_key`. The plaintext key stored in `wp_usermeta` can be used with the plugin's custom `armrp` reset action to set a new password for any user. Combined with another vulnerability such as SQL Injection (CVE-2026-5073, CVE-2026-5074), this makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the plaintext reset key and take over any user account, including administrators.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup
All 9| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Registration Custom Field ≤7.8.1Update to 7.8.2 | CVE-2026-93427 | |
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection ≤7.9.0Update to 7.9.1 | CVE-2026-42417 | |
| High7.5 | Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection ≤7.5Update to 7.6 | CVE-2026-27060 | |
| Medium6.5 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'sSortDir_0' Parameter ≤7.3.1Update to 7.3.2 | CVE-2026-5074 | |
| High7.5 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'order' Parameter ≤7.3.1Update to 7.3.2 | CVE-2026-5073 |
- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Registration Custom Field
≤7.8.1Update to 7.8.2
- High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤7.9.0Update to 7.9.1
- High7.5Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection
≤7.5Update to 7.6
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'sSortDir_0' Parameter
≤7.3.1Update to 7.3.2
- High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'order' Parameter
≤7.3.1Update to 7.3.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- 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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