CVE-2026-89079

critical

Description

The Theme My Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions up to, and including, 7.2.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords on multi-site setups in certain configurations.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/53c548be-b8aa-4949-93f8-7b4d73688540?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3696081/theme-my-login

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-102666

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00294