CVE-2026-14250
Description
The Themehunk Login Registration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.0.2. This is due to the handle_frontend_register() function in the unauthenticated /thlogin/v1/register REST endpoint accepting a user-controlled 'role' parameter and validating it only against get_editable_roles() โ which returns every defined editable site role, including 'editor' โ before passing it to wp_insert_user(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers, when public user registration is enabled, to create new accounts with the editor role.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/themehunk-login-registration/tags/1.0.2/includes/class-thlogin-rest-api.php#L243
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/themehunk-login-registration/tags/1.0.2/includes/class-thlogin-rest-api.php#L782
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/themehunk-login-registration/tags/1.0.2/includes/class-thlogin-rest-api.php#L811
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/themehunk-login-registration/tags/1.0.2/includes/class-thlogin-rest-api.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3592690%40themehunk-login-registration&new=3592690%40themehunk-login-registration
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8eee3809-133e-4fd9-ad49-cc6fe3822457?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-269
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.