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.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenunscored · unknownNVD modified 2026-10-29 06:00
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 1
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/605832f7-40d5-4a74-a30a-5f5f2906db63/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description