WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

User Registration & Membership < 5.2.0 - Unauthenticated Paid Membership Bypass

Description

The plugin does not enforce payment completion before activating a paid membership subscription, allowing unauthenticated users (after self-registering an account through the open registration flow) to obtain an active subscription on any paid plan without paying and access the gated content.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.2.0

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
John Umoru
Submitter
John Umoru
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-06-11 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-06-11 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-06-11 (about 1 day ago)

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