CVE-2026-79995User Registration & Membership < 5.2.5 - Subscriber+ Pending Email Change Cancellation via IDOR
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The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.5 does not verify that the account whose pending email change is being cancelled belongs to the user making the request, allowing authenticated users with Subscriber-level access and above to cancel any other user's in-progress email change, including an administrator's.
- CVSS
- 4.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-639
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- WPScan
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Aug 28, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Unknown User Registration & Membership unknown:user_registration_and_membership (from the name) | before 5.2.5 | CNA record |
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/551423b4-5c0c-48cc-9ba0-1f5637eea446/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
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