CVE•Published 2026-09-13•Modified 2026-09-13•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-80071
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.2
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.8 does not properly restrict who may author a membership plan or validate the plan a user attaches to their own account, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to assign themselves an arbitrary role and escalate their privileges to Administrator.
Timeline
Published 2026-09-13
Modified 2026-09-13
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-2026-80071Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-80071Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-80071Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-80071GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-80071" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-80071 on GitHub.
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