CVE-2026-7651 Missing authorization in User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder
Authenticated users can delete arbitrary media files belonging to other users due to missing ownership validation in the User Registration & Membership plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-7651?
CVE-2026-7651 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in wpeverest User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder, published on 28 May 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.5. This is due to missing ownership validation on a user-controlled attachment ID, allowing the plugin to store and subsequently delete arbitrary media attachments without verifying that the referenced attachment belongs to the requesting user. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to permanently delete arbitrary media attachments uploaded by any other user, including administrators.
Weakness: CWE-639
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-7651?
How do I fix CVE-2026-7651?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-7651 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-7651 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-7651 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xc7f-h2v5-wx39.