CVE-2024-1991: Metagauss Registrationmagic

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration, Payment, and User Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_users_role() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator

Affected products

• Metagauss Registrationmagic: before 5.3.1.0 (fixed in 5.3.1.0)

Published 2024-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.