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CVE-2026-5076: ARMember Premium <= 7.3.1 - Insecure Password Reset Mechanism to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-02 · updated 2026-07-21
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The ARMember Premium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an insecure password reset mechanism in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.1. The plugin stores a plaintext copy of the password reset key in the `arm_reset_password_key` user meta field when a user requests a password reset. This is in addition to the hashed key that WordPress core stores securely in `wp_users.user_activation_key`. The plaintext key stored in `wp_usermeta` can be used with the plugin's custom `armrp` reset action to set a new password for any user. Combined with another vulnerability such as SQL Injection (CVE-2026-5073, CVE-2026-5074), this makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract the plaintext reset key and take over any user account, including administrators.

Affected products

• ARMember Premium – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup: through 7.3.1

References

• https://codecanyon.net/item/armember-complete-wordpress-membership-system/17785056
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6b15eca5-fd47-4f8f-8ade-3a90e0bfc110?source=cve

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