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CVE-2026-79995: User Registration & Membership < 5.2.5 - Subscriber+ Pending Email Change Cancellation via IDOR
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2026-08-28 · updated 2026-08-28
- Weakness: CWE-639
Description
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.
Affected products
- User Registration & Membership: before 5.2.5 — fixed in 5.2.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: User Registration & Membership 5.2.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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