WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
WP User Frontend 3.5.29 - 4.3.11 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Registration Role Encryption
Description
The plugin does not prevent tampering with the role assigned by its registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a higher privileged role, such as Editor.
This affects installations running a PHP build where the sodium extension is unavailable, and where a registration page has been configured. The administrator role cannot be obtained this way.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
PRIVESC
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Murad Akhmedov
Submitter
Murad Akhmedov
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-09-28 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-28 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-29 (about 9 hours ago)