CVE-2026-105190

Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.7.0 - Unauthenticated Unauthorized Account Creation

2026-10-06 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.7.1
Affected Plugin: Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
Affected Version: <= 3.7.0
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE: CVE-2026-105190

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At a glance

CVE-2026-105190 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.7.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.7.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2026, reported by Rik de Kok.

Vulnerability Overview

The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.0. This is due to missing check against the site's user registration setting before calling edd_register_and_login_new_user() during checkout. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create a WordPress user account and receive a logged-in session even when the site's user registration setting is disabled.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.7.0 carries this weakness at edd_register_and_login_new_user(), and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Easy Digital Downloads the fix is 3.7.1: builds <= 3.7.0 are affected, anything from 3.7.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.7.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Easy Digital Downloads 3.7.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-105190 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/90a97e6e-629b-4640-b930-ca06f79276e2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105190

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CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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