Vulnerability in User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder — CVE-2026-80071

What to do now

Update User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder to 5.2.8 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything before 5.2.8

The User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to 5.2.8. This is due to insufficient restriction on the capabilities a user may grant themselves. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to elevate their privileges beyond those intended for their role.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/216f1faf-362a-4218-93f1-9f1f4ad171aa?source=api-prod

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/216f1faf-362a-4218-93f1-9f1f4ad171aa
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