CVE-2026-12497

NVD: The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin before 4.16.18 does not consistently enforce the role restriction configured on its front-end registration role-selection field. NVD: The set of roles offered to the visitor and the set of roles the registration handler accepts are derived by two different parsers, and for some valid ways of configuring the offered roles the handler ignores the restriction and falls back to accepting any... NVD: Combined with the absence of a nonce on the public registration handler, this allows an unauthenticated visitor to register an account with a higher role, such as Editor or Author, than the form was configured to offer.

Source-published summary

NVD: The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin before 4.16.18 does not consistently enforce the role restriction configured on its front-end registration role-selection field. NVD: The set of roles offered to the visitor and the set of roles the registration handler accepts are derived by two different parsers, and for some valid ways of configuring the offered roles the handler ignores the restriction and falls back to accepting any... NVD: Combined with the absence of a nonce on the public registration handler, this allows an unauthenticated visitor to register an account with a higher role, such as Editor or Author, than the form was configured to offer.

Possible impact

This high severity issue needs human triage to confirm exposure, affected versions, and vendor guidance for high severity review.

Affected context

Affected product or version requires source confirmation.

Remediation / advisory

Remediation reference present; patch status requires confirmation in the linked advisory.

Why it matters

This high severity issue needs human triage to confirm exposure, affected versions, and vendor guidance for high severity review.; CVSS 7.5 (HIGH); EPSS percentile 14; not listed in KEV; Remediation reference present; patch status requires confirmation in the linked advisory; sources: NVD.

What to verify

Confirm affected product/version, vendor advisory, patch or mitigation, and exposure.

Exposure hint

exposure unknown

Impact tags

Urgency reasons

Source-derived note

Summary derived from NVD description; unsafe procedural detail is not shown.

Redaction metadata

source summary used

True

fallback summary used

False

unsafe procedural detail present

false

raw source displayed

false

public summary redacted

true

Remediation handoff

Public-safe static handoff for human/Codex remediation planning. Scan, patch, external execution, and auto remediation are disabled.

Safety note

This radar shows source-published defensive context only. Exploit procedures, exploit strings, scanner commands, and auto-remediation are not provided.

Official references

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12497