User Registration & Membership: A security weakness
User Registration & Membership is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is < 5.2.0.
- Component
- User Registration & Membership
- Plugin slug
user-registration- Affected
- < 5.2.0
- Safe version
5.2.0- Published
- Jul 02, 2026
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Jul 02, 2026 and is one of 39 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update User Registration & Membership to 5.2.0 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.0 does not enforce payment completion before activating a paid membership subscription, allowing unauthenticated users (after self-registering an account through the open registration flow) to obtain an active subscription on any paid plan without paying and access the gated content.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N