WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Ultimate Multisite < 2.17.0 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via 'email_address' Parameter

Description

The plugin does not require authentication before a logged-out checkout is linked to, and logged in as, an existing WordPress account matching the submitted email address, and its duplicate-account check normalizes that address differently from the lookup used to create the customer, so an unauthenticated attacker can log in as any existing user, including a Network Super Admin, whose email address they know.
This bypass is not addressed by the 2.15.1 fix for CVE-2026-75957 and remains exploitable in all versions up to and including 2.16.1, the releases that fix was expected to cover. Exploitation requires a checkout form configured without a password field (auto-generated password) and a target account that has no existing customer record in the plugin.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.17.0

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Submitter
Erwan LR (WPScan)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-06 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-06 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-07 (about 8 hours ago)

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