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CVE-2026-0844: Simple User Registration <= 6.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via profile_save_field

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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.

Affected products

• nmedia Simple User Registration: through 6.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.7/inc/classes/class.profile.php#L401
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.7/inc/classes/class.user.php#L305
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-registration/tags/6.8/inc/classes/class.profile.php#L401
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb0e77e1-7e9f-4f7e-8953-c86ab0e5ae7a?source=cve

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