CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-0844
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
The Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7 due to insufficient restriction on the 'profile_save_field' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_capabilities' parameter during a profile update.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.7/inc/classes/class.profile.php#L401 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.7/inc/classes/class.user.php#L305 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.8/inc/classes/class.profile.php#L401 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb0e77e1-7e9f-4f7e-8953-c86ab0e5ae7a?source=cve www.wordfence.com