WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

MainWP Child < 6.1.2 - Unauthenticated Administrator Authentication Bypass via Passwordless Site Registration

Description

The plugin does not verify the requester's identity in its site-registration request handler when password authentication has been disabled for the targeted account, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to obtain a valid authentication session as that account, including an administrator, by naming its login in a single registration request.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.1.2

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited)
Submitter
Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited)
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-06 (about 21 days ago)
Added
2026-07-06 (about 20 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-24 (about 2 days ago)

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