CVE-2026-108685

CVE-2026-108685CVE-2026-108685

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.

Scoring

CVSS 3.7 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Last modified2026-10-29
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.