CVE•Published 2026-05-21•Modified 2026-07-23•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-5118
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
39
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 61% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Divi Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.1.2. This is due to the plugin accepting a user-controlled 'role' parameter from POST data during user registration without validating it against the form's configured default_user_role setting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts by tampering with the role parameter during registration.
Timeline
Published 2026-05-21
Modified 2026-07-23
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-2026-5118Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-5118Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-5118Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-5118GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-5118" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (8)
CVE-2026-51188 repos
nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHubunknown
📡 PoC auto collect from GitHub. ⚠️ Be careful Malware.
DarkFunct/TK-CVE-RepoPython
TK-CVE-Repo
hiifong/starListPython
Export your star's repository list
afine-com/researchunknown
CVEs, conference materials, research.
oslook/n8n-workflowsunknown
4200 + Workflow Automation Templates are Grouped by Categories/Services for easy navigation
zycoder0day/CVE-2026-5118unknown
CVE-2026-5118 | Divi Form Builder <= 5.1.2 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Role Injection
puj790201-lab/CVE-2026-5118Python
CVE-2026-5118-exp_wordpress_Divi Form Builder
jaschadub/compromised-packages-checkPython
Scan a repository for known-malicious npm, cratres, and PyPI package versions from recent supply-chain compromises (Mini Shai-Hulud, TanStack, @cap-js/mbt, etc). UPDATED 6 TIMES A …