CVE-2026-89079: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management in jfarthing84 Theme My Login
Description
The Theme My Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions up to, and including, 7.2.1. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords on multi-site setups in certain configurations.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.8critical
Affected software
jfarthing84
Theme My Login
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2026-09-10T19:21:53.450Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ad1bacf2cdf04f656bb89c0
Added to database: 10/16/2026, 05:49:03 UTC
Last updated: 10/16/2026, 05:49:03 UTC
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