{"id":"CVE-2026-75823","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-75823","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:50:41.435Z","title":"The User Frontend WordPress plugin before 4.3.12 does not prevent tampering with the role assigned by its registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a higher privileged role, such as Editor.","description":"The User Frontend  WordPress plugin before 4.3.12 does not prevent tampering with the role assigned by its registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a higher privileged role, such as Editor.\n\nThis affects installations running a PHP build where the sodium extension is unavailable, and where a registration page has been configured. The administrator role cannot be obtained this way.","published":"2026-09-30T06:17:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T16:28:32.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.4,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.0025,"percentile":0.16202,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-30","score":0.00146,"percentile":0.03269}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"scored","label":"Newly scored","at":"2026-09-30T16:30:07.000Z","detail":{"from":null,"score":"7.4","severity":"HIGH","fromSeverity":null},"summary":"Now scored CVSS 7.4 HIGH."},{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-30T06:17:04.000Z","detail":{"score":null,"severity":null,"publishedAt":"2026-09-30T06:17:03.783Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.4)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4a385690-3471-4604-aa2a-e120bb31ca53/","source":"contact@wpscan.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75823","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}