Easy Digital Downloads allows signup with registration disabled
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin before 3.7.1 does not check the site's user registration setting before creating a WordPress account. Unauthenticated remote attackers can create an account and receive a logged-in session even when registration is disabled, and the account gets the site's default role (CWE-862).
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin before 3.7.1 does not consult the site's user registration setting before creating a WordPress account, allowing unauthenticated users to create an account and receive a logged-in session even when registration is disabled. The created account receives the site's default role.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Easy Digital Downloads | before 3.7.1 | 3.7.1 | Patch available | CNA |
- Easy Digital Downloads VendorUnknown Affected before 3.7.1 Fixed in 3.7.1 Patch available CNA
Remediation
Update Easy Digital Downloads to version 3.7.1 or later.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
- Fix · CNA Easy Digital Downloads (Unknown) Fixed in 3.7.1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Easy Digital Downloads 3.7.1
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-69513 Sensitive information disclosure in Easy Digital Downloads user downloads blockPriority LOW 19
Timeline
- 2026-10-08 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-105190
References
Sources
This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Sources and licences