WordPress plugin
Disable Users <= 1.0.5 — Disabled Account Authorization Bypass
CVE-2026-88827Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.0.5No patch available
What to do until a fix ships- Severity
- Medium4.3
- CVSS
- 4.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- 0.3% chance in 30 days20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Disable Users disable-users
- Affected≤ 1.0.5
- PatchedNo fix yet
No patched version available.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.5. No fixed version has been released.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Disable Users.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Disable Users to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Naoki Kawahigashi.
The Disable Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to protection mechanism failure in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.5. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting XMLRPC and Application Passwords for disabled accounts. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to bypass disabled account restrictions.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- EPSS
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.