vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: user-registration: CVE-2025-2563: Improper Privilege Management
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Mar 24, 2025 | May 15, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 |
Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 24, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025
Description
The User Registration and Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 4.1.1. This is due to insufficient restrictions on role type in the 'prepare_members_data()' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with the 'administrator'' role.
Solution
user-registration-plugin-cve-2025-2563
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