CVE•Published 2026-01-28•Modified 2026-04-08•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-0844
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Simple User Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 6.7 due to insufficient restriction on the 'profile_save_field' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_capabilities' parameter during a profile update.
Timeline
Published 2026-01-28
Modified 2026-04-08
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-0844Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-0844Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-0844Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-0844GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-0844" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.