CVE-2026-108685

LOW
3.7CVSS v3
—CVSS v2
0.20% EPSS (exploit probability)
CWE-862CWE

Description

The WP Post Author WordPress plugin before 4.2.0 does not check that the account was created before updating its profile during front-end registration, allowing unauthenticated users to overwrite the display name, nickname and website of the first user account, which is normally the administrator, when a registration form declares one of those fields.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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