CVE-2026-1492 Details.
WordPress User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
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About CVE-2026-1492. What It Means.
User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin <= 5.1.2 contains an improper privilege management vulnerability caused by accepting user-supplied roles without server-side allowlist enforcement, letting unauthenticated attackers create administrator accounts
Affected Product. What Is Hit.
The record for CVE-2026-1492 does not name a vendor or product yet.
FAQ
Common Questions.
WordPress User Registration & Membership <= 5.1.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation. User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin <= 5.1.2 contains an improper privilege management vulnerability caused by accepting user-supplied roles without server-side allowlist enforcement, letting unauthenticated attackers create administrator accounts
No. To test for this one, the check would have to send requests that could change data on the site. Atlas only ever reads public pages, so it does not run this check. The facts about CVE-2026-1492 are on this page, and you can request a demo to see how Brandefense watches your whole external attack surface.
CVE-2026-1492 is not on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list at the time of writing, but it is still worth fixing.
Update the affected software to the latest version from the vendor, or follow the vendor's advice to switch off the affected feature. Vendor links are listed on this page when they are known.
This page lists the public facts about CVE-2026-1492. Atlas does not run a check for it, so nothing here says whether a particular site is affected.