User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder <= 4.4.9 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 5.1.3
- Affected Version
<= 4.4.9- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- CVE
CVE-2026-32488
At a glance
CVE-2026-32488 is a critical-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.4.9. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.1.3; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2026, reported by 0xd4rk5id3.
Vulnerability Overview
The User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the server.
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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Remediation
Update to version 5.1.3, 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: User Registration & Membership 5.1.3 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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