WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

User Registration & Membership 5.2.8 - 5.3.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Coupon-Based Payment Bypass

Description

The plugin does not verify that a discount coupon applied to a paid membership plan is actually valid for that plan before treating a fully discounted order as paid, allowing unauthenticated users to be granted the role mapped to a paid plan without paying for it, which can lead to privilege escalation up to administrator where a plan is mapped to a privileged role.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.3.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Maciek Komorowski
Submitter
Maciek Komorowski
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-09 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-09 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-10 (about 7 hours ago)

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