CVE-2026-4056CWE-862

User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Content Access Rule Manipulation

Medium · published March 23, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The User Registration & Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the Content Access Rules REST API endpoints in versions 5.0.1 through 5.1.4. This is due to the `check_permissions()` method only checking for `edit_posts` capability instead of an administrator-level capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to list, create, modify, toggle, duplicate, and delete site-wide content restriction rules, potentially exposing restricted content or denying legitimate user access.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00316 · 23.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-03-23T23:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAR 23:25Z
    User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Content Access Rule Manipulation
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