CVE-2026-12497

The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin before 4.16.18 does not consistently enforce the role restriction configured on its front-end registration role-selection field. The set of roles offered to the visitor and the set of roles the registration handler accepts are derived by two different parsers, and for some valid ways of configuring the offered roles the handler ignores the restriction and falls back to accepting any non-administrator role. Combined with the absence of a nonce on the public registration handler, this allows an unauthenticated visitor to register an account with a higher role, such as Editor or Author, than the form was configured to offer.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bfb14acb-051c-4bcb-adfc-10a27a00dfe7/

Configurations

No configuration.

History

24 Jul 2026, 20:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 7.5
CWE		CWE-269

24 Jul 2026, 07:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-07-24 07:16

Updated : 2026-07-24 20:48

NVD link : CVE-2026-12497

Mitre link : CVE-2026-12497

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-12497

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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