Privilege escalation in Wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, Profile, Custom Login Builder
CVE-2026-1492
The User Registration & Membership – Custom Registration Form Builder, Custom Login Form, User Profile, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper privilege management in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2. This is due to the plugin accepting a user-supplied role during membership registration without properly enforcing a server-side allowlist. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts by supplying a role value during membership registration.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.289 (98.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.280 · newest: 0.289 · change: +0.009
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
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Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-1492?
- CVE-2026-1492 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, Profile, Custom Login Builder, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-03-03.
- How severe is CVE-2026-1492?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2026-1492 known to be exploited?
- 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.