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User Registration – Custom Registration Form, Login Form, and User Profile WordPress Plugin, CVE-2026-3601

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-3601

Published on
May 05, 2026
Research Description
The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the `embed_form_action()` function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to append shortcode content to arbitrary pages they do not own or have permission to edit.
Affected versions
max 5.1.5.
Status
vulnerable