{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-79996 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-79996 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-79996 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown User Registration \u0026 Membership, published on 28 Aug 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-79996 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-79996 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown User Registration \u0026 Membership, published on 28 Aug 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-79996 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Unknown User Registration \u0026 Membership. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-79996/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-79996/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-79996","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-79996/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-79996","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-wcg9-8v95-6r4q"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users with limited plugin management capabilities can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying login settings without proper capability checks.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"The User Registration \u0026 Membership  WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 does not perform a capability check when saving its login settings, allowing authenticated users who have been granted a User Registration \u0026 Membership  WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 management capability but not full administrator access to change arbitrary site options and escalate their privileges to administrator.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"User Registration \u0026 Membership \u003c 5.2.6 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Login Settings","id":"CVE-2026-79996","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Hugging Face Transformers library writes remote code to disk prior to consent check","id":"CVE-2026-80047"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"User Registration \u0026 Membership \u003c 5.2.5 - Subscriber+ Pending Email Change Cancellation via IDOR","id":"CVE-2026-79995"},"products":["User Registration \u0026 Membership"],"published":"2026-08-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-28","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"Authenticated users with limited plugin management capabilities can escalate privileges to administrator by modifying login settings without proper capability checks.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-79996/"}