High (7.2). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.8 does not properly restrict who may author a membership plan or validate the plan a user attaches to their own account, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to assign themselves an arbitrary role and escalate their privileges to Administrator.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.2 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)