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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.1 High

CVE-2026-12251

Ultimate Member < 2.12.1 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Role Selection Field

Description

The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin before 2.12.1 does not filter administrator-level capabilities from the roles it makes selectable on its registration forms, and its post-registration safeguard against elevated accounts is disabled by default, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a site-defined role that carries administrator capabilities and gain administrative access, when such a role exists and a role-selection field is present on a published registration form.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Unknown Ultimate Member

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 2.12.1affected

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