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High Privilege escalation

CVE-2026-115807 — User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 4.0.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via Gutenberg Block 'Assigned Role' Attribute

The User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.3. This is due to the Gutenberg Register block passing the attacker-controlled Assigned Role attribute directly into the `[wppb-register]` shortcode without server-side authorization. The role guard in the form builder only downgrades roles that carry the manage_options or remove_users capability, leaving the Editor role and other privileged non-Administrator roles completely unrestricted. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above to create new WordPress accounts bearing the Editor role (or any other role that lacks the two guarded capabilities).

Published Oct 24, 2026 · Updated Oct 28, 2026 · Sources: CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP, NIST National Vulnerability Database, GitHub Security Advisories · CNA: Wordfence

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.
How the score was calculated
  • EPSS 0.2% (30-day exploitation probability)+2
  • Technical severity (high)+6

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation
Not confirmed
Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.
EPSS FIRST
0.21%
ahead of 11% of scored CVEs · Oct 29, 2026
Affects
Cozmoslabs
User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor
CVSS base
7.1
High · 3 source(s)

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
No
can an attacker script the kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

  1. Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor).
  2. No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
  3. Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (privilege escalation), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

VendorProductVersionsStatusSource
Cozmoslabs User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor ≤ 4.0.3 Vulnerable CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactScored by
7.1 CVSS 3.1 High 2.8 4.2 security@wordfence.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
7.1 CVSS 3.1 High — — GitHub, Inc. via GitHub Security Advisories
7.1 CVSS 3.1 High — — Wordfence via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N (score shown at the top: security@wordfence.com)

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

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EPSS over time FIRST

Oct 24, 2026 → Oct 29, 2026 · 6 reading(s) · max 0.29%

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

  • Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).
web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPS

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

  • 2026
  • SSVC assessment updated
    Oct 28, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • Source status changed · Received → Deferred
    Oct 26, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • Source status changed · Published → Received
    Oct 24, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
  • Record published
    Oct 24, 2026
  • CVSS changed · 7.1
    Oct 24, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • Source status changed · → Published
    Oct 24, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • Record created in this database
    Oct 24, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
  • CVE published
    Oct 24, 2026 · Wordfence

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

  • 1× References added · Oct 28, 2026 – Oct 28, 2026
  • 1× Official description updated · Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

References

4 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Cozmoslabs
every CVE for this vendor
Privilege escalation
same class
CWE-269
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

  • CVE-2026-109447 User Profile Builder <= 4.0.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'role' Parameter via Legacy Meta-Name Collision on [wppb-register] 14d
  • CVE-2026-107748 User Profile Builder <= 4.0.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'display_name' Parameter 14d
  • CVE-2026-100186 User Profile Builder <= 4.0.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via First Name Field 14d
  • CVE-2026-95866 User Profile Builder <= 4.0.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Field Sep 25, 2026
  • CVE-2026-93656 User Profile Builder <= 4.0.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Field Sep 25, 2026
  • CVE-2026-6431 User Profile Builder <= 3.15.7 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Biographical Info' Meta Field Sep 7, 2026

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-115807 is "User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor <= 4.0.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via Gutenberg Block 'Assigned Role' Attribute", rated High. It affects User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor (Cozmoslabs); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 7.1 describes technical severity. EPSS 0.21% estimates the probability of exploitation in 30 days; neither replaces your asset context. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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