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Description

The Divi Form Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.1.2. This is due to the plugin accepting a user-controlled 'role' parameter from POST data during user registration without validating it against the form's configured default_user_role setting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts by tampering with the role parameter during registration.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-30 | Published 2026-05-21 | Updated 2026-05-21 | Assigner Wordfence




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-05-20:Disclosed

Credits

Jude Nwadinobi finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-f956-4ea2-96ec-166ade87885f?source=cve

diviengine.com/divi-form-builder-changelog/

cve.org (CVE-2026-5118)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-5118)

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