CVE-2026-79995 (GCVE-0-2026-79995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:00 – Updated: 2026-08-28 06:00
VLAI
Title
User Registration & Membership < 5.2.5 - Subscriber+ Pending Email Change Cancellation via IDOR
Summary
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.5 does not verify that the account whose pending email change is being cancelled belongs to the user making the request, allowing authenticated users with Subscriber-level access and above to cancel any other user's in-progress email change, including an administrator's.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/551423b4-5c0c-48… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown User Registration & Membership Affected: 0 , < 5.2.5 (semver)
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Credits
Sai Praneeth Koti WPScan
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