CVE-2026-83628

medium

Description

The Theme My Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in versions up to, and including, 7.1.15 on Multisite installations. This is due to the `tml_ms_signup_handler()` function's `gimmeanotherblog` branch failing to enforce the network's `active_signup` registration policy, checking only `is_user_logged_in()` while sibling branches such as `validate-blog-signup` apply the full policy gate. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to directly POST `stage=gimmeanotherblog` to Theme My Login's signup route, bypassing the configured registration policy entirely — even when it is set to `none` or `user` — which causes `wpmu_create_blog()` to execute with the attacker's user ID, after which WordPress core assigns the Administrator role on the newly created subsite via `add_user_to_blog()`. The privilege gain is scoped to the newly created subsite only; the attacker's account retains Subscriber-level access on the main site and does not obtain Super Admin or network-level capabilities such as `manage_network` or `manage_sites`.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72585c12-baa9-4c63-8584-906a1d3b332f?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3669722%40theme-my-login%2Ftags%2F7.2.0&old=3643898%40theme-my-login%2Ftags%2F7.1.15

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftheme-my-login/tags/7.1.15&new_path=%2Ftheme-my-login/tags/7.2.0

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3669721/theme-my-login/trunk/includes/ms-functions.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-my-login/tags/7.1.15/includes/ms-functions.php#L708

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-my-login/tags/7.1.15/includes/ms-functions.php#L661

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-my-login/tags/7.1.15/includes/ms-functions.php#L580

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-05

Updated: 2026-09-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0024