CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-97337
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-10-06
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and sensitive information disclosure in versions up to, and including, 4.8.3 via the resend-activation and email-activation endpoints. The endpoints are dispatched from SwpmInitTimeTasks::check_and_do_email_activation() on frontend init with no authentication, nonce, capability, or ownership check, and the recipient address used by SwpmRegistration::send_reg_email() is taken from an attacker-controlled $_POST['email'] parameter (overriding the member's registered address). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect an arbitrary pending member's activation email — and the follow-up 'registration complete' email containing the member's username and plaintext password — to an attacker-chosen address, and to then activate that member's account without their consent.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-front-registration.php#L774 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-front-registration.php#L850 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-init-time-tasks.php#L167 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-registration.php#L75 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3716437%40simple-membership&new=3716437%40simple-membership plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ae2b6c4c-7dd6-41e7-8b8d-c09aa7fa660b?source=cve www.wordfence.com