CVE-2026-80071

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.

  • Published Sep 13, 2026
  • CVSS 7.2 high
  • 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)
  • A fix is available

Affected software

CVE-2026-80071 at the National Vulnerability Database