Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force: Missing authorization check
Summary
The WordPress membership plugin Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force up to and including version 2.8.3 contains a missing authorization check (CWE-862). An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to access functions or content that should be restricted, with a low confidentiality impact. The affected endpoint and the exact data at risk are not described in the sources.
Affected
- DEV Institute Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force, all versions up to and including 2.8.3
Fixed in
- Version 2.8.4 or later (per the CVE record and the Patchstack entry; the wordpress.org listing still needs to be verified)
Workaround
- Unknown. No vendor or researcher mitigation has been published. Updating is the only documented remedy.
Exploitation
- No evidence of exploitation in the wild. Not listed in CISA KEV.
- No public proof-of-concept found at the time of writing. The record is only one day old, so this may change.
Our recommendation
- Check all WordPress sites, including those managed by agencies, for this plugin and its version.
- Update to version 2.8.4 or later as soon as it is confirmed on wordpress.org or the vendor page.
- If an update cannot be applied immediately, ask your hosting provider or web developer for help and review which content the plugin protects.
- Also check for the related CVE-2026-62040, which is fixed by the same update.
- Monitor web server logs for unusual access to members-only pages.
Public exploits
PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit and Exploit-DB list nothing for this CVE.
Research sources
- CVE Record CVE-2026-124271 www.cve.org
- Patchstack advisory: Broken Access Control in Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force patchstack.com
- WordPress.org plugin page: Restrict User Access wordpress.org
- WPScan: Restrict User Access plugin wpscan.com
- OffSeq Radar: Missing authorization in Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force radar.offseq.com
- Strix: CVE-2026-124271 www.strix.ai
- Vulners: CVE-2026-62040 (related) vulners.com
Researched and written up in English and German by an AI (Claude by Anthropic) based on NVD, CISA, EPSS and the sources listed. The vendor information is authoritative. Researched on 11 Nov 2026, 17:51.
Original description (NVD)
Missing Authorization vulnerability in DEV Institute Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force restrict-user-access allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Restrict User Access – Membership Plugin with Force: from n/a through 2.8.3.
Sources
The tracker combines official, freely usable data sources – updated continuously:
- NVD (NIST) – CVEs, rating (CVSS), affected products
- CISA KEV – vulnerabilities confirmed by CISA as actively exploited
- CISA Vulnrichment – CISA assessment (SSVC) in the official CVE record
- FIRST EPSS – probability of exploitation
- Microsoft MSRC – Patch Tuesday: vulnerabilities, severity, updates
- PoC-in-GitHub – public proof-of-concept repositories
- Metasploit (Rapid7) – modules of the Metasploit Framework
- Exploit-DB (OffSec) – archive of public exploits (links only)
- Patch days: official vendor pages (linked per vendor) (Vendor patch days)
This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS data © FIRST.org.
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