CVE•Published 2026-05-21•Modified 2026-05-21•1 article on news•6 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
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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 2026-05-21
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
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
liuzhen9320/zstarunknown
They said organizing stars was extremely troublesome, so I lent a hand.
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 …
NiNiyas/awesome-starsunknown
Made with https://github.com/NiNiyas/starred