Critical severity9.4NVD Advisory· Published Aug 3, 2026· Updated Aug 26, 2026

CVE-2026-15930

Description

The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not verify whether user creation failed during registration before using the returned value as a user ID to update an account, allowing unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the primary administrator's account data (including the email address) and take over that account through the password reset flow.

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Affected products

WordPress/Simple Membershipllm-fuzzy
Range: <4.7.8
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-membership

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/e46948f1-0e06-4e76-8fc8-df661eb786a5/nvd

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