WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Ultimate Member < 2.12.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Role Selection Field
Description
The plugin does not filter administrator-level capabilities from the roles it makes selectable on its registration forms, and its post-registration safeguard against elevated accounts is disabled by default, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a site-defined role that carries administrator capabilities and gain administrative access, when such a role exists and a role-selection field is present on a published registration form.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
PRIVESC
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Haitam Lazaar
Submitter
Haitam Lazaar
Submitter website
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-07-14 (about 14 days ago)
Added
2026-07-14 (about 13 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-23 (about 4 days ago)